Antiquariatsmesse Stuttgart 2022 - Katalog

Mann contributed for the auction the original manuscript
of his lecture on “Richard Wagner and the Nibelungen
Ring”, writing in his foreword “It gives me
pleasure to be able to send this contribution for this
good and noble cause”.
Albert Einstein, also like Mann a refugee from Nazi
Germany, and who campaigned tirelessly for the rights
of the refugees, contributes the preface and also donated
a 3,000-word manuscript on anti-Semitism for
the auction.
The true first discovery of greenhouse gases by
the “First Lady of Climate Science”
Foote, Eunice Newton. Circumstances affecting
the Heat of the Sun’s Rays. 1856. € 14 500,–
Octavo. Uncut in original buff printed paper wrappers.
Three engraved plates; folding world map; numerous illustrations,
diagrams, and tables to text. Wrappers darkened,
loss to spine panel affecting head and obscuring
part of journal title, rear wrapper starting at joints with
some small vertical markings across panel and a few
chips at extremities, lower corner clipped; internally
markedly crisp and clean with occasional faint marginal
foxing. Overall a very good, unrestored copy.
Uncommon first edition, in the original wrappers, of
the first paper to record the discovery of the absorption
of thermal radiation by carbon dioxide and water
vapour, “a cornerstone of our current understanding
of the greenhouse effect, climate change, weather and
meteorology” (Jackson).
The significance of Eunice Newton Foote (1819–1888)
and her experiments with carbon dioxide (“carbonic
acid gas”) has come to light in the last ten years or
so, resulting in her being recognized as a key figure
in climate science history. A 19th-century American
scientist, inventor, and women’s rights campaigner, she
was the first to demonstrate, in the present 1856 paper,
that carbon dioxide and water vapour absorb heat. She
also speculated that variations in carbon dioxide and
water vapour in the atmosphere cause changes in climate.
Foote’s findings were presented to the American
Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
in August 1856, though she herself did not read the
paper; it was given on her behalf by Joseph Henry, then
the founding director of the Smithsonian. This is the
UCSB-Perlin copy.
Freud proofreads his final published work
Freud, Sigmund. Signed photograph. [London:
Wilhelm Hoffer, photographer, 1938]. Original silver
gelatine print (112 × 87 mm). Signed by the subject,
“Sigm. Freud”, across the lighter portion of the
photograph. Pencil markings on verso and faint ink
processing number “89 030”; traces of album mount.
Silvering of the darker parts of the image, else very
good. Presented in a dark stained oak frame with
museum acrylic glazing. € 27 000,–
A superb signed photograph of Freud at work taken
by the Austrian-British psychoanalyst Wilhelm Hoffer
(1897–1967), depicting Freud seated at his desk in
London, reading the manuscript of Moses and Monotheism.
Freud had begun working on his Moses book in 1934
and partly published it in German in 1937. He arrived
in London on 6 June 1938, announcing that he wished
to continue his biblical studies. (Hoffer also fled Vienna
for London at about the same time.) Freud finished the
book that year and the complete German text in three
parts was first published in Amsterdam in March 1939
as “Der Mann Moses und die Monotheistische Religion”.
Freud’s English was excellent, but he entrusted
the task of translating the book to Katerina (Kitty) Jokl,
who had been at school with Freud’s daughter, Anna.
The English translation was published by the Hogarth
Press in May 1939, Freud dying in September that year.
John Law and the Mississippi Company
Law, John – Anon. Curieuse Anmerckungen über
den Staat von Franckreich. Leipzig: in der Missisippischen
Staats-Druckerey, 1720. € 13 500,–
Octavo (163 × 100 mm). Bound with another work
in contemporary speckled paste paper boards, paper
spine label lettered in manuscript. Engraved portrait
frontispiece of John Law. Spine ends, joints, and corners
rubbed, with some flaking of sprinkled paper covering,
paper stock lightly browned with occasional spotting;
a very good copy.
Rare first edition of this anonymous account of the rise
and decline of France under Louis XIV, who “under the
clever guidance of Mr. Law has to the amazement of all
fortunately improved it” (our translation). Dedicated to
“Mons. Law”, who “der Welt bey anderthalb Jahren
so viel zu reden gemacht [hat]”, the stubbornly anonymous
author (he signs himself so) also describes the
state of France following Louis XIV’s death, its subsequent
recovery under the Prince Regent, and an account
of Law’s activities and the Mississippi Company.
Bound after this work is a copy of the life of Cardinal
Giulio Alberoni, prime minister of Anjou, a German
translation apparently from the Italian, published in
1718. The work is attributed in WorldCat to Jean
Rousset de Missy.
Alden 720/58; Goldsmiths’ 5608; Kress 3185; Sabin
39308.
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