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‎Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel [in Hebrew]. In: Iton Rishmi [in Hebrew],Official Gazette of Israel. - [THE BIRTH OF ISRAEL]‎

‎Tel Aviv, 14 May 1948. Folio. (4) pp. Unbound as issued. In near perfect condition.‎

‎Scarce first printing of the Israeli Declaration of Independence, the seminal historical document that establishes the first Jewish state in 2.000 years. Contained in the first issue of the Official Gazette of the Israeli provisional government, this landmark publication was printed on the first day of the birth of Israel. A bound set of ""Iton Rishmi"" reprinting this historic publication was issued later the same year. Formally entitled the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, the Israeli Declaration of Independence was proclaimed on May 14 1948, by David Ben-Gurion, the executive head of the World Zionist Organization, chairman of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, and, shortly after, the first Prime minister of Israel. It declared the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz-Israel, to be known as the State of Israel. ""The Land of Israel was the birthplace of the Jewish people. Here, their spiritual, religious, and national identity was formed. Here, they achieved independence and created a culture of national and universal significance. Here, they wrote and gave the Bible to the world.Exiled from Palestine, the Jewish people remained faithful to it in all the countries of their dispersion, never ceasing to pray and hope for their return and the restoration of their national freedom."" Thus begins the seminal historical document that constitutes one of the most important political ones of recent times. Immediately following the British army withdrawal earlier on May 14, war broke out between Jews and Arabs. Egypt launched an air assault against Israel that same evening. Despite a blackout in Tel Aviv-and the expected Arab invasion-Jews celebrated the birth of their new nation, especially after word was received that the United States had recognized the Jewish state. At midnight, the State of Israel officially came into being upon termination of the British mandate in Palestine. ""Using the American Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution as philosophical frameworks, a small group of attorneys and politicians pieced together Israel's Declaration of Independence. Other important political decisions pertaining to Jewish statehood were left until the last minute: the location of the State's capital, its final name, and how to bring together several Jewish military organizations under one command. Military operations, particularly those around the Jewish settlement at Kfar Etzion, south of Jerusalem, diverted attention from final decisions about these matters. Also pressing on David Ben-Gurion, the head of the Jewish Agency and future first Prime Minister of Israel,was the request by President Truman's White House asking for a formal written request for recognition.On Friday, May 14, following some debate, the National Council, established to oversee the political needs of the Jewish community in Palestine, voted to accept the final text of the Declaration. That afternoon at 4 pm, David Ben-Gurion, head of the National Council, read the Declaration at the Tel Aviv Museum. Without electricity in Jerusalem, few there heard Ben-Gurion's words or the singing and playing of 'Hatikvah,' Israel's national anthem. That morning, Ben-Gurion, uncertain about the coming war with Arab states, had his secretary secure a safety deposit box at a local bank so that the Declaration could be immediately placed there for safekeeping. The Declaration was a synopsis of Jewish history to 1948 and a statement of Israel's intent toward its inhabitants, neighbors, and the international community. It was divided into four parts: 1) a biblical, historical, and international legal case for the existence of a Jewish state in the Land of Israel" 2) the self-evident right of the Jewish people to claim statehood 3) the actual declaration of statehood" and 4) statements about how the state would operate, including an enumeration of citizen rights. In keeping with the UN Resolution that provided international legitimacy for Jewish and Arab states in Palestine, the requirement to have a constitution was stated. Israel's objective to institute a constitution was postponed indefinitely in June 1950. Noteworthy similarities and differences exist between the American and Israeli Declarations of Independence. Both declarations assert independence and the right of their populations to control their own destinies, free from legislative impositions and despotic abuses. In the Israeli case, however, immediate past history was included, and it reflected earlier Jewish catastrophes and the prospects of potential physical annihilation. Both declarations sought self- determination, liberty, and freedom derived their claims based on human and natural rights, promised safeguards for the individual, and proclaimed an interest in commerce or economic growth. The Israeli Declaration of Independence contained a list of historical claims to the land of Israel. The Declaration cited benchmark historical events when the international community sanctioned the Jewish state's legitimacy, particularly the acknowledgement to build a national home given by the League of Nations (1922) and by the United Nations (1947) to establish a Jewish state. While there were skirmishes going on between Americans and the British when the American Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776, when Israel declared its independence it was in the midst of a full-fledged war for survival with the local Arab population and surrounding Arab states. The on-going war notwithstanding, the Israeli Declaration of Independence includes a declaratory statement offering ""peace and amity"" to its neighbors and the request ""to return to the ways of peace."" Both declarations made reference to a higher authority: the Israeli Declaration of Independence does not mention religion, but it closes with the phrase ""with trust in the Rock of Israel [Tzur Yisrael].""1 The choice of this phrase was Ben-Gurion's verbal compromise, made to balance strong secular and religious pressures. Any precise mention of religion might have required mention of religious practice, which could have created enormous social fragmentation in the early fragile years of the state. By contrast, the American Declaration of Independence appealed to the ""Supreme Judge, protection of the Divine."" (Ken Stein, 2008, from: israeled.org).‎

‎Handbuch der Land=Bau=Kunst,vorzüiglich in Rücksicht auf die Construction der Wohn=und Wirtschafts=Gebäude für angehende Cameral=Baumeister und Oeconomen. Erster-Zweyter Theil. 2 Bde. (1.Theil in Neue Auflage). - [SEMINAL WORK ON ARCHITECTURE.]‎

‎Berlin, Verdrucht auf Rosten des Forfatters, 1798. 4to. Bound in 2 contemporary half calf. Spine with gilt leather title-label. Wear to extrimities, especially to spine: Loss of top 2 cm of spine and upper half of back hinges loose on volume 2. With library stamps to title page. Internally with occasional brownspotting, all the plates are, however, very nice and clean. (6), 296 pp + 24 hand coloured engraved plates" (1), VIII, 325, (4) + 23 hand coloured engraved plates.‎

‎Second printing of German architect David Gilly's seminal and famous work on country and rural architecture. The present work is one of the most successful examples of architecture integrating urban and regional planning and architecture and is probably the most important contribution to the development of Prussian Classicism. Gilly had extensive technical knowledge particularly of wooden roof structures. ""One of the trendsetters within the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century electorate was David Gilly (1748-1808), a second generation Huguenot whose family had come from Provence. He established the theory and practice of rual architecture in Brandenburg-Prussia"" functionality and utility were paradigms by which he desgined buildings. Through his son (1772-1800), Gilly influenced the famous romantic-classicist Klarl Friedrich Schinkel and his school."" (Finney, Seeing Seeing beyond the word: visual arts and the Calvinist tradition, p. 272). David Gilly built the two castles Paretz (1796) and Freienwalde (1798) for the king of Prussia. ‎

‎Om Nationaloeconomiens og Beskatningens Grundsætninger. Oversat efter Originalens tredie Udgave af Sophus Fallesen. (On The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation. Translated from the third edition of the original by Sophus Fallesen). - [THE DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH - A DEFENCE OF FREE TRADE]‎

‎Kjøbenhavn, Bianco Luno, 1839. 8vo. Nice comtemporary half calf with gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine. Minor wear to capitals and corners bumped. Light brownspotting to first and last leaves. A very fine and clean copy. (8), 470 pp.‎

‎Rare first Danish edition of the monumental main work by one of the absolutely most influential classical economists, David Ricardo, the systematizer of economics. The Danish translation is translated from the third edition, which appeared in 1821.David Ricardo (1772-1823) was born in London as the son of a Dutch Jew. Initially Ricardo was primarily interested in science and mathematics, but after having read Adam Smith's ""Wealth of Nations"" in 1799, he devoted himself entirely to political economy, and in 1817 he could publish his seminal work ""The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation"" (see PMM 277). Two years later, in 1819, Ricardo was elected to the Parliament, and became the House's acknowledged expert on economic affairs, -also as such he considerably influenced the opinion towards free trade.There are three classical economists, who must be said to have fundamentally changed political economy, and they are Adam Smith, Thomas Robert Malthus, and David Ricardo, -the three main founders of ""modern economic analysis"". On the basis of ""The Wealth of Nations"", classical political economy could be founded by Malthus and Ricardo, -in his ""Principles"". Ricardo was in doubt as to whether he should publish his later so exceedingly famous work, but was persuaded to do so by his friend James Mill, chief Apostle of the Utalitarians, and so he did in 1817, when the work presented the population of Great Britain with some very unexpected conclusions. Enlarging on the Physiocrats, Ricardo places the interest of the landlord and that of the community in the most violent opposition, -he states: ""the interest of the landlord is necessarily opposed to the interest of every other class in the community."" On the grounds of this theory, he gathered quite a number of opponents, who considered this the embodiment of injustice and strongly opposed of his theories. ""Ricardo, in his paradox to arrest attention, outlined the case for class war. It is one of the issues which John Stuart Mill will be forced to confront, and upon which Marx built his theory and makes his observations."" (Catlin, A History of the Political Philosophers, Ldn., 1950, p. 374). In opposition to Smith, Ricardo was not interested in the value as the principle for the equal exchange between differentiated individuals, but in it as the means of building up theories of the relation between wages, profits and rents and their distribution to landlords, capitalists and labourers, -thus developing the famous theory of ""labour as measure"". Against Malthus he opposes the interest of the agriculturalist as against that of the free-trading manufacturer, -one of his distinctive contributions to economics lies in expounding the monopoly theory of rent. ""Ricardo was, in a sense, the first ""scientific"" economist. Lacking Smith's warmth and sympathy for humanity and for the labourer in particular, Ricardo saw the study of economics as a pure science whose abstractions were capable of quasi-mathematical proof. Although his theorems remain hypothetical, his deductive methods have proved a great use in the elementary analysis of economic problems, currency and banking, it has proved a lasting value."" (Printing and the Mind of Man 277).The work is groundbreaking in numerous respects, one of them being that Ricardo here also sets out to establish paper-money, -he actualized this as well as the theory that the banks should convert its stock of gold into standardized gold bars, -this is the reason why the very first gold bars, as we know them, were called ""Ricardos""" the first was issued in 1820.The work has been immensely influential throughout Europe, and has had a strong effect on Danish liberal thought and politics. ‎

‎Fabien. Récit orné de six Images hors-texte dessinées et gravées par Hermine David. Paris, Au Sans Pareil, 1926.‎

‎Small 8vo. Uncut with all orig. wrappers. No 85 of 60 ""sur hollande van Gelder"" (numb. 71 à 130), total of 1250. There is no extra suite. With 6 orig. engraved plates by David.‎

‎Bella. Gravures de Hermine David. Paris, Émile-Paul Frères, 1928.‎

‎4to. Bound in fine red longgrained hmorocco, gilt back. Uncut with all orig. wrappers withbound. Top edge gilt. No 218 of 200 (numb. 26 á 225), total of 225 copies. With 19 fine original etchings (9 full-page, 10 half-page) by Hermine David.‎

‎Simon le Pathétique. Pointe Sèches par Hermine David. Paris, Henri Jonquieres, 1927.‎

‎Orig. wrappers, uncut. No 496 of 1050 ""sur Velin de Rives"", a total of 1151 copies. Original etching by David, 11 fill-page, initials and vignettes.‎

‎Beweis für die Darstellbarkeit der ganzen Zahlen durch eine feste Anzahl nter Potenzen (Waringische Problem).‎

‎Leipzig, B.G. Teubner, 1909. Orig. printed wrappers. No backstrip. In. ""Mathematische Annalen. Hrsg. von Felix Klein, Walther v. Dyck, David Hilbert, Otto Rosenthal"", 67. Bd., 3. Heft. Pp. 281-432 (=3. Heft). Hilbert's paper: pp. 281-300.‎

‎First printing of a groundbreaking work in Number Theory. Edward Waring (1734-98) stated, in his ""Meditationes Algebraicae"" (1770), the theorem known now as ""Waring's Theorem"", that every integer is either a cube or the sum of at most nine cubes"" also every integer is either a fourth power of the sum of at most 19 fourth powers. He conjectured also that every positive integer can be expressed as the sum of at most r kth powers, the r depending on k. These theoremes were not proven by him, but by David Hilbert in the paper offered.Hilbert proves that for every integer n, there exists an integer m such that every integer is the sum of m nth powers. This expands upon the hypotheis of Edward Waring that each positive integer is a sum of 9 cubes (n=3, m=9) and of 19 fourth powers (n= 4, m=19).This issue also contains F. Hausdorff's ""Zur Hilbertschen Lösung des Waringschen Problems"", pp. 301-305.(Se Kline p. 609).‎

‎Rapport sur le Prix Bolyai. - [POINCARÉ APPRAISAL OF HILBERT]‎

‎Berlin, G. Reimer, 1912. 4to. Bound in contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Acta Mathematica"", Vol, 35, 1912. Entire volume offered. Stamps to title page, otherwise a fine and clean copy. Pp. 1-28. [Entire volume: (4), 398, (1), 27, 19 pp].‎

‎First appearance of Poincaré's report on 1910 Bolyai Prize which was awarded to David Hilbert in recognition of his work in fields of invariant theory, transcendent number (e constant after Lindemann), arithmetic, the (Hilbert-)Waring theorem, geometry, integral equations and the Dirichlet’s principle.In 1910, Hilbert became only the second winner of the Bolyai Prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. It was the recognition of the fact that Hilbert was one of the leading mathematicians of his time. The first winner of the prize in 1905 was Henri Poincare, the most prolific mathematician of the 19th century.Poincaré about the works and achievements of David Hilbert in fields of invariant theory, transcendent number (e constant after Lindemann), arithmetic, the (Hilbert-)Waring theorem, geometry, integral equations and the Dirichlet’s principle.‎

‎London being an accurate History and Description of the British Metropolis and its Neighbourhood, to thirty Miles extent. From an actual Perambulation. Vol. 1-2 (of 6). London, J. Stratford, 1805.‎

‎8vo. Bound in 2 cont. hcalf. Gilt backs. Slightly rubbed. VIII,652,550 pp. and 55 engraved plates (London-buildings and city-views). Plates somewhat brownspotted and the 5 last plates in vol. I with tear at foot, reaching into image with ab. 1 cm.‎

‎First edition.‎

‎An Interpretation and Critique of Wittgenstein's Tractatus.‎

‎København, Munksgaard, 1964. 8vo. Orig. wrappers. A bit of browspotting to covers, some underlinings, otherwise fine. 238 pp.‎

‎First edition of this doctoral dissertation by the important Danish Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, David Favrholdt (born 1931). David Favrholdt, student of Jørgen Jørgensen, is considered the Danish authority on Wittgenstein, and his early interpretation of Wittgenstein's ""Tractatus"" has proved important for the tradition of reading and interpreting Wittgenstein in Scandinavia. Shortly after having written his doctoral dissertation, Favrholdt was appointed the first professor of philosophy at the new university of Odense in Danmark (1966), a post that he possessed for 35 years. He was born in Oregon, USA, and graduated as cand.psych in 1956 and cand.phil in 1959 from the University of Copenhagen. He has greatly influenced modern Danish philosophy and is hugely popular among students of philosophy and psychology.""On the one hand, I consider the ""Tractatus"" over-estimated, for it contains many mistakes, and could be improved in all respects. On the other hand, I am convinced that some valuable points of the book have been overlooked by the commentators of Wittgenstein, and that his own fundamental viewpoint has never been understood. I am counsel for the prosecution and counsel for the defence in one. I hope this attitude is constructive, not confusing."" (Favrholdt, Preface, p. (8) ).The work was reprinted several times in the 60'ies, the first reprint being from the year after the first edition.‎

‎She'eilot U'Teshuvot (Hebrew, i.e. Questions and Answers). [4th Book (of 4)]. - [IBN LEV'S HIGHLY IMPORTANT RESPONSA - THE 4TH BOOK]‎

‎Venice, Zan. Zanetti, 5422 (=1606). Small 4to. Later marbled paper over earlier blue paper-covered boards, paper spine over earlier cloth spine. Binding somewhat worn. Woodcut title-page and woodcut vignette at end, depicting two lions under a tree. Old owner's stamp to title-page and to second and last leaf (""D.L.W. - David Weissappel). Some marginal annotations in old Hebrew script. Last half of leaves turned brown, otherwise a bit brownspotted. Top-corner torn off last leaf, but this corner is present, and there is no loss of text. Fairly well preserved and complete copy of this early Hebrew book. (51 ff.)‎

‎First edition of this fourth book of responsa by Joseph Ben David Ibn Lev.Joseph Ibn Lev (1505-1580) was a Turkish Rabbi who moved to Constantinople in 1550. He reacted against Pope Paul IV due to his cruelty against the Jews. He is called ""The Great Jurist"" and is known to have written the four books of Responsa, which were highly thought of. This is the fourth of the four books of Responsa that he wrote. The three first were printed in Constantinople around 1560-1573, and this fourth was printed in Venice in 1606. Other editions appeared later on, but every one of these four books in the first edition rare and only few copies are registered.‎

‎An Interpretation and Critique of Wittgenstein's Tractatus. - [INTERPRETING WITTGENSTEIN]‎

‎Copenhagen, Munksgaard, 1964. Royal 8vo. Orig. printed wrappers. A bit of foxing and sunning to wrappers, otherwise fine. Internally very nice and clean. 238 pp.‎

‎First edition of this doctoral dissertation by the important Danish Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, David Favrholdt (born 1931). David Favrholdt, student of Jørgen Jørgensen, is considered the Danish authority on Wittgenstein, and his early interpretation of Wittgenstein's ""Tractatus"" has proved important for the tradition of reading and interpreting Wittgenstein in Scandinavia. Shortly after having written his doctoral dissertation, Favrholdt was appointed the first professor of philosophy at the new university of Odense in Danmark (1966), a post that he possessed for 35 years. He was born in Oregon, USA, and graduated as cand.psych in 1956 and cand.phil in 1959 from the University of Copenhagen. He has greatly influenced modern Danish philosophy and is hugely popular among students of philosophy and psychology.""On the one hand, I consider the ""Tractatus"" over-estimated, for it contains many mistakes, and could be improved in all respects. On the other hand, I am convinced that some valuable points of the book have been overlooked by the commentators of Wittgenstein, and that his own fundamental viewpoint has never been understood. I am counsel for the prosecution and counsel for the defence in one. I hope this attitude is constructive, not confusing."" (Favrholdt, Preface, p. (8) ).The work was reprinted several times in the 60'ies, the first reprint being from the year after the first edition.‎

‎Ueber die Darstellung definiter Formen als Summen von Formenquadraten.‎

‎Leipzig, B.G. Teubner, 1888. 8vo. Original printed wrappers, no backstrip. In ""Mathematische Annalen. Begründet durch Rudolf Friedrich Alfred Clebsch. XXXII. [32] Band. 3. Heft."" Entire issue offered. [Hilbert:] Pp. 342-50. [Entire issue: Pp. 309-456].‎

‎First publication of Hilbert's fundamental and exceedingly important paper on real algebraic geometry. ""In 1888, David Hilbert published an influential paper [the present] which became fundamental for real algebraic geometry, and which remains an inspiring source for research even today."" (Pfister & Scheiderer). David Hilbert, one of the most influential mathematicians of the 19th and early 20th centuries, is probably best known for the ""Hilbert Problems"" - a list of twenty-three problems in mathematics all unsolved at the time, and several of them were very exceedingly influential for 20th century mathematics.He is regarded as one of the founders of proof theory and mathematical logic, as well as for being among the first to distinguish between mathematics and metamathematics.""Hermann Weyl described his teacher Hilbert's style: ""It is as if you were on a swift walk through a sunny open landscape" you look freely around, demarcation lines and connecting roads are pointed out to you, before you must brace yourself to climb the hill" then the path goes straight up."" (Princeton Companion to Mathematics). ‎

‎Ueber die Darstellung definiter Formen als Summen von Formenquadraten.‎

‎Leipzig, B.G. Teubner, 1888. 8vo. Bound in recent full black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Mathematische Annalen"", Volume 32., 1888. Entire volume offered. Library label pasted on to pasted down front free end-paper. Small library stamp to lower part of verso of title page. Very fine and clean. Pp. 342-350. [Entire volume: Pp. IV-600.]‎

‎First publication of Hilbert's fundamental and exceedingly important paper on real algebraic geometry. ""In 1888, David Hilbert published an influential paper [the present] which became fundamental for real algebraic geometry, and which remains an inspiring source for research even today."" (Pfister & Scheiderer). David Hilbert, one of the most influential mathematicians of the 19th and early 20th centuries, is probably best known for the ""Hilbert Problems"" - a list of twenty-three problems in mathematics all unsolved at the time, and several of them were very exceedingly influential for 20th century mathematics.He is regarded as one of the founders of proof theory and mathematical logic, as well as for being among the first to distinguish between mathematics and metamathematics.""Hermann Weyl described his teacher Hilbert's style: ""It is as if you were on a swift walk through a sunny open landscape" you look freely around, demarcation lines and connecting roads are pointed out to you, before you must brace yourself to climb the hill" then the path goes straight up."" (Princeton Companion to Mathematics). The volume contain several other papers by influential contemporary mathematicians such as Felix Klein, Hurwitz, Lie, Lilienthal and Peano.‎

‎Disputationes Theologicae XXX. Articulorum Augustanae Confessionis analysin complectentes & Orthodoxam Ecclesiarum Evangelicarum doctrinam antithesei Heterodoxae illustratam explicantes (+) Synopsis Doctrinae De Aeterna Dei Praedestinatione.‎

‎Witebergae, Bergerus, 1610. 4to. In contemporary limp vellum with title and author in contemporary hand to spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Soiling and stains to extremities. Red seal to verso of front board. Previous owner's name (Hans Lauridsen Buxen ( ? - 1647)) to tile-page. A few quires loose and a few small worm-tracts. (16), 680, (36), (104) pp.‎

‎The rare first edition of Lobech’s treatise consisting of 30 disputations that analyze the articles of the Augsburg Confession, a central document of Lutheran theology. David Lobech (1560–1603) was a German Evangelical-Lutheran theologian from Hadeln. He studied languages, philosophy and mathematics in Rostock earning his Magister in 1582. In 1589, he became a deacon at St. Peter’s Church, later serving as Archdeacon at St. James Church. In 1594 he was appointed professor of theology and awarded a Doctorate in Theology. The book has previous belonged to Danish priest Hans Lauridsen Buxen.‎

‎Speculum aureum vitae moralis seu Tobias (...). - [COMMENTARY ON THE BOOK OF TOBIT]‎

‎Antwerp, Jan van Meurs, 1631. Folio (330 x 215 mm). In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Wear to extremities. Corner's bumped, with loss of leather. Boards with scratches with loss of leather and spine-ends chipped. Vague dampstain to upper margin throughout, index with a few worm-tracts, otherwise internally nice and clean. (36), 895, (186) pp.‎

‎Exceedingly rare first edition Mauden's extensive commentary on the Book of Tobit, also known as the Book of Tobias in some versions. The book is included in the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canons and the Dead Sea Scrolls, but not in the Jewish Masoretic text. Protestant tradition places it in the Apocrypha, with Anabaptists, Lutherans, Anglicans and Methodists recognizing it as useful for purposes of edification and liturgy, albeit having non-canonical in status. David van Mauden (1575–1645), jurist and theologian, also functioned as parish priest of the church of Our Lady of the Chapel in Brussels and dean of the church of Breda.‎

‎Geschichte der Amerikanischen Revolution aus den Acten des Congresses der vereinigten Staaten. 4 vols.‎

‎Berlin, Vossischen Buchhandlung, 1794 - 1795. 8vo. Uniformly bound in four contemporary (original?) blue cardbord-bindings with author and tome-label in contemporary hand. Small paper-labels pasted on to top of spine. Spines with wear and miscoloured. Internally nice and clean. XVI, 446 pp. IV, 444 pp. (8), 391 pp. (10), 404 pp.‎

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‎First German edition of Ramsay's landmark work on the American Revolution. David Ramsay is considered to be one of the first major historians of the American Revolution. Sabin 67688.‎

‎Neu eroffnete Mahometanische Moschea [...]. 2 part. - [THE FIRST RELIABLE GERMAN TRANSLATION OF THE KORAN]‎

‎Nurnberg, Endter, 1703. 8vo. Two parts (consecutively paginated) in one contemporary full calf Cambridge-style binding with four raised bands and gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine. Gilt borders to boards. Extremities with wear, a few wormholes to spine and most of the gilt ornamentation worn off. One plate with tear and missing small part of paper in centre. Stamp to front free end-paper, otherwise internally fine and clean. (16), 1222. (50) pp. + frontiespiece and 12 plates (out of 15).‎

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‎First edition of David Nerreter’s translation of the Koran, which forms the second part of the present work. The translation was based on the Maracci-edition from 1696 which replaced Schweigger's earlier German translation (1616). Here Schweigger had used an flawed Italian translation from 1557, so in many ways, the present translation constitutes the first thoroughly reliable German translation of the Koran. The first part discusses the history of Islam and its customs and the second part is devoted to the translation of the Quran.‎

‎Cressida. Avec de nombreuse Gravures sur Cuivre de Hermine David. Paris, Éditions Émile-Pavl Frères, (1926).‎

‎4to. All orig. wrappers. Uncut. Expl. HC (hors commerce) ""sur Papier de Rives"", total of 225. With 10 original full page engravings and 23 in the text.‎

‎Byron. Vignettes de Hermine David. 2 vols. Paris, Éditions Émile-Paul Frères, (1931).‎

‎Orig. wrappers, uncut. VI,295,281 pp. No 412 of 1200 ""sur papier vélin de Rives"", a total of 1300 copies.‎

‎Les Nuits Chaudes du Cap Francais. Pointes Sèches par Hermine David. Paris, Henri Jonquiéres, 1927.‎

‎Bound uncut with all orig. wrappers in full calf, gilt back, richly gilt covers (René Kieffer). no 307 of 1050 ""sur vélin de Rives"", a total of 1150 copies.‎

‎Fædrelandet. Et Tidsskrift. 1.-5 Bd. (1834-39) + Fortsættelsen: Extrablad 1-20 (det udk) + 1. Aarg. (1.-2. Halvbd. Nr. 21-388 - mangler nr. 158-188, 190-203, samt 216,307,350 (disse 3 beslaglagte).‎

‎Kjøbenhavn, Reitzel, 1834-40. Lex8vo og folio. 1.-5. Bd. indbundeti 3 samtidige hldrbd. Rygge lidt slidte. (Alberti's navnetræk i 5. bd.). Fortsættelsen (folio) 1.-2. Halvbd. i 2 samtidige hshirtbd. Rygge lidt slidte. 704,928,932,920,1104 spalter + 3152 spalter (minus de anførte numre).Alle bind med orig. titelblade og indholdsfortegnelser.‎

‎Fædrelandet blev den førende avis i kampen for en fri forfatning, især da den i 1840'erne inddrog nationalitetskampen i Slesvig og dermed de nationalliberale synspunkter (""Danmark til Ejderen!"") i sit journalistisk-politiske program. Fædrelandet blev en avis for eliten med sine tunge, polemiske artikler i akademisk stil og svage nyhedsdækning. Avisen udkom til og med 1882, Carl Plough var redaktør fra 1841.Redaktøren C.N. David blev anklaget efter Trykkefrihedsforordningen, da juristen Orla Lehmann i 1834 på avisens forside skrev om de nye stænderforsamlinger (indført 1832) som et første skridt til folkestyre. Han blev senere frifundet. (Avisnet).En avis for eliten med sine tunge, polemiske artikler i akademisk stil og svage nyhedsdækning.‎

‎Über asymptotische Werthe, infinitäre Approximationen und infinitäre Auflösung von Gleichunge. - [ANTICIPATING CANTOR'S ""DIAGONAL ARGUMENT"".]‎

‎Leipzig, B. G. Teubner, 1875. 8vo. Bound in recent full black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Mathematische Annalen"", Volume 8., 1875. Entire volume offered. Library label pasted on to pasted down front free end-paper. Small library stamp to lower part of title title page and verso of title page. Title page missing a small piece of paper to the right margin, not affecting text. Very fine and clean. Pp. 363-414. [Entire volume: IV, 576 pp.].‎

‎First printing of Paul du Bois-Reymond's important paper in which he anticipate Cantor's famous ""diagonal argument"". Although Cantor proved that the real numbers are uncountable one year earlier he did not find the much clearer diagonal argument until some years later.""In 1875, he described dense sets under the title 'pantachisch,' from the Greek for 'everywhere.' He later claimed, against Georg Cantor, priority in their discovery. In his textbook, Hobson awarded the laurels to du BoisReymond. Although Cantor presented his first diagonal proof to the public in On an elementary question of set theory [Cantor 1891], Paul du Bois-Reymond had been there well before him, having published a plainly diagonal argument in an 1875 article on approximation by in?nitesimals. [P. du Bois-Reymond 1875] Arguably his greatest invention was the Infinitärcalcül or infinitary calculus, an original, nonCantorean account of infinite and infinitesimal sizes as first-classentities that represent not the extents of collections but the rates of growth of real-valued functions."" (McCarty, David Hilbert and Paul du Bois-Reymond: Limits and Ideals).‎

‎Über eine Darstellungsweise der invarianten Gebilde in binären Formengebiete (+) Ueber die Singularitäten der Discriminantenfläche (+) Ueber binäre Formenbüschel mit besonderen Combinanteneigenschaften.‎

‎Leipzig, B. G. Teubner, 1887. 8vo. Bound in recent full black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Mathematische Annalen"", Volume 30, 1887. Entire volume offered. Library label pasted on to pasted down front free end-paper. Small library stamp to lower part of title title page and verso of title page. Very fine and clean. Pp. 15-29" 437-441" Pp. 561-570. [Entire volume: IV, 596 pp.].‎

‎First printing of these early three papers by Hilbert. David Hilbert, one of the most influential mathematicians of the 19th and early 20th centuries, is probably best known for the ""Hilbert Problems"" - a list of twenty-three problems in mathematics all unsolved at the time, and several of them were very exceedingly influential for 20th century mathematics.He is regarded as one of the founders of proof theory and mathematical logic, as well as for being among the first to distinguish between mathematics and metamathematics.""Hermann Weyl described his teacher Hilbert's style: ""It is as if you were on a swift walk through a sunny open landscape" you look freely around, demarcation lines and connecting roads are pointed out to you, before you must brace yourself to climb the hill" then the path goes straight up."" (Princeton Companion to Mathematics). The present volume contain several other papers by influential contemporary mathematicians. ‎

‎Beweis für die Darstellbarkeit der ganzen Zahlen durch eine feste Anzahl n-ter Potenzen (Waringsches Problem). Dem Andenken an Hermann Minkowski Gewidmet. - [Hilbert-Kamke problem]‎

‎Leipzig, B. G. Teubner, 1909. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half calf with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Mathematische Annalen"", 67 band. 1909. Bookplates to pasted down front free end-paper and library stamp to verso of title page. Top half of spine is detached. Bookblock, however, still firmly attached. Fine and clean. Pp. 281-300. [Entire volume: IV, 575 pp.].‎

‎First printing of a groundbreaking work in Number Theory. Edward Waring (1734-98) stated, in his ""Meditationes Algebraicae"" (1770), the theorem known now as ""Waring's Theorem"", that every integer is either a cube or the sum of at most nine cubes"" also every integer is either a fourth power of the sum of at most 19 fourth powers. He conjectured also that every positive integer can be expressed as the sum of at most r kth powers, the r depending on k. These theoremes were not proven by him, but by David Hilbert in the paper offered.Hilbert proves that for every integer n, there exists an integer m such that every integer is the sum of m nth powers. This expands upon the hypotheis of Edward Waring that each positive integer is a sum of 9 cubes (n=3, m=9) and of 19 fourth powers (n= 4, m=19).This issue also contains F. Hausdorff's ""Zur Hilbertschen Lösung des Waringschen Problems"", pp. 301-305.(Se Kline p. 609).‎