List New York Antiquarian Book Fair - Antiquariat - Michael Kühn

nössische schwarze Pappbände mit goldgeprägtem, rotem Titelrückenschild. XX, 489 pp., 1
Bl., XXX, 560 pp., 1 Bl., mit einer gestochenen Karte. VIII, [1] Bl., 511 pp., [1]; [2] Bl., IV,
[1] Bl., 470 pp.; [2] Bl., II, 406 pp. Einbände geringfügig berieben. Stellenweise etwas gebräunt.
Im Ganzen jedoch wohlerhaltenes Exemplar. $ 2400.-
Erste Ausgabe. - Vgl. Zittel, S. 187: "Hoff begann aus der Literatur Beweise für den geologischen Aktualismus
zu sammeln, die er von 1822 ab veröffentlichte. Durch diese fundamentale Arbeit wurde er der Begründer des
Aktualismus vor Charls Lyell. Hierin liegt seine bleibende, noch heute gültige Leistung für die Geologie, zu
deren Klassikern er gehört." - Die Folgebände erschienen erst 1834, 40 und 1841. - Die Karte im ersten Band
zeigt die Veränderungen Helgolands in der Gestalt der Insel im achten, dreizehnten und siebzehnten Jahrhundert
und ist von jener Karte entlehnt welche Edward Daniel Clarkes in seinen "Travels inVarious Countries of
Europe, Asia and Africa" abbildete.
Karl Ernst Adolf von Hoff (1771 - 1837, Gotha) was a German natural historian and geologist. After studying
law, physics and natural history, in 1791 he was appointed to a diplomatic post by Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-
Gotha-Altenburg. From 1832 onwards he was the director of Gotha's royal science and art collections and he
also wrote the five-volume: Geschichte der durch Überlieferung nachgewiesenen naturlichen Veränderungen
der Erdoberfläche from 1822 to 1841. Provenance: Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749 – 1817) - a German geologist
who set out an early theo-ry about the stratification of the Earth's crust and coined the word Neptunism.
Though much of Werner's theore-tical work was erroneous, science is indebted to him for clearly demonstrating
the chronological succession of rocks, for the zeal which he infused into his pupils, and for the impulse which he
thereby gave to the study of geology. He has been called the “father of German geology.”- not Freilich, not in
Sinkankas, not in Schuh, not in Ward/ Carozzi, Hill Cat. 135, 45.
A Medical ‘Wunderkammer’ (Musee Dupuytren)
Houel, Charles Nicolas. Catalogue des pièces du Musée Dupuytren, publié sous les auspices
de la Faculté de médecine de Paris.- Paris : Dupont et Masson, 1877- 1880. 4°. [244 x 174
mm] 3 [of 5] vols. text & 5 atlases in 4. [atlas cptl.] with 31 photos in pantotype, 19 photos in
lithotype, 16 photos in phototype & 19 photos in phototype. Publ. Wrappers and Publ.
halfcloth, stamped, little unfresh. Inside quite good copy. $ 4000.-
Catalog with photographic images from this long established and important museum. The The Musée Dupuytren
is a museum of anatomical items illustrating diseases and malformations. The museum was established in 1835
by Mathieu Orfila as the Museum of Pathological Anatomy of the Medicine Faculty of the University of Paris,
with the bequest of Baron Guillaume Dupuytren, anatomist and celebrated professor of surgery. The museum
was installed in the old refectory of the Cordeliers Convent, gathering collections from throughout the faculty. Its
first catalog was compiled between 1836 and 1842, and listed about a thousand specimens. By the late 1870s the
museum contained over six thousand pieces. The museum began a slow decline starting in the late 19th century,
despite continued acquisition of new collections, and its upkeep became problematic. In 1937 Gustave Roussy
ordered the museum shut, with many items subsequently lost or destroyed. Among many other notable items, the
museum contains brains of aphasic patients, preserved in alcohol by the celebrated anatomist Paul Pierre Broca,
and used in his research in the localization of brain functions. The photographer was Pierre Lanith Petit (1832–
1909) who worked 'with' or better under orders of André- Adolphe- Eugène Disdéri (1819–1889) in the 77
employees workshop. In 1858, he opened his own workshop. He was the official photographer of the 1867
Exposition Universelle and went to New York several times to report on the construction of the Statue of Liberty.
In 1898, he was the first photographer to attempt underwater photography.- Taureck, Bedeutung 208.
Invention of a Planisphere
Huldeberg, Daniel Erasmus de. Opuscula iuventutis mathematica curiosa quorum sylla-bum
pagina versa exhibet in unum collecta et tertium edita curante Georgio Guilielmo de Lage ...
cum epistola huius ad autorem illustrem.- Jenae [Jena]: apud Io. Tob. Oehrlingum, 1710.
Quarto [193 x 116 mm] [32], 280 pp., with [3] folded leaves of plate, title page in red &
black, engraved initials. Printer's tail-piece. Contemporary calf, gilt spine in compartments,
title stamped, else fine. $ 3800.-