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RAY, JOHN. 1627-1705.:3 titles, all first editions:
1. Observations Topographical, Moral Physiological; Made in a Journey through Part of the Low-Countries, Germany, Italy and France ... with a Catalogue of Plants, not Native of England, found Spontaneously Growing in Those Parts. London: John Martyn, 1673. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. 4 engraved plates. Contemporary calf, rebacked. Keynes 21.
2. Miscellaneous Discourses Concerning the Dissolution and Changes of the World. London: Samuel Smith, 1692. 8vo. With Imprimatur leaf (A1); lacking S3 (the penultimate leaf, errata). 18th-century calf, corner repaired on title. Keynes 81.
3. Synopsis Methodica Animalium Quadrupedum et Serpenti Generis. London: S. Smith B. Walford, 1693. 8vo. Engraved portrait frontispiece. 18th-century paneled calf, staining. Keynes 91.

雷，约翰。1627-1705. 3个标题，所有第一版：

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西格马尔·波尔克，当代艺术I-

Sigmar Polke * - Zeitgenössische Kunst I-

(Oels/Niederschlesien 1942-2010 Cologne)
Untitled, 1994, on the reverse signed, dated twice S. Polke 94, natural resin and pigments (malachite, lapis lazuli and realgar) on canvas, 95 x 75 cm, framed

We are grateful to Michael Trier, Cologne, for his scientific advice in cataloguing this work.

Provenance:
Private Collection, North Rhine-Westphalia - directly from the artist
Van Ham Kunstauktionen, Cologne, 01 December 2021, lot 301 - acquired there by the present owner

Sigmar Polke has left us an extensive oeuvre, centred first and foremost on his irrepressible interest in colour. The production of colours was of great importance to the artist, who was often described as an alchemist, and he wanted to explore it from the bottom up. With the aid of the most modern techniques and motifs he was constantly searching for the origin of painting, sometimes also with a great deal of irony. Art ought to be an experiment with an open outcome, and he, the artist, ought to elicit the hidden beauty from the material world with his works.

Polke worked with the so-called \"Schüttbilder\" from the early 1970s on, colour samples and \"Probierbilder\", in which calculated chaos is elevated to a creative principle. Ten years later, Polke\'s painting showed a change \"that was much discussed in connection with the works for the exhibition Zeitgeist in 1982, for Documenta 7 in the same year and reached a climax in his contribution to the 德国 pavilion at the 42nd Venice Biennale (1986). Figuration recedes in favour of the more gestural and process-like use of colour, its lush or veil-like overlays and fusions.\"
(Katharina Schmidt, quoted from: Sigmar Polke – Zeichnungen, Aquarelle, Skizzenbücher 1962 – 1988, exh. cat., Kunstmuseum Bonn 1988, p. 194).

The 1994 work offered here is in the tradition of the colour samples of the 1970s and refers pictorially to the colour plates from 1992, which are in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Its presentation is very painterly and overall reminiscent of the wall painting at the Venice Biennale (1986), for which Sigmar Polke was awarded the Golden Lion.

In the present work, the artist mixed a total of three dyes with natural resin and applied them to the canvas. In the lower area, the ultramarine blue of the dark blue semi-precious stone lapis lazuli dominates. Lapis lazuli is one of the oldest pigment stones of all and was already used as pigment in prehistoric Europe. For the upper part of the picture, Polke used the powdered pigment of the semi-precious stone malachite. The coarser the grain, the more intense the shade of colour. Malachite pigment was prized in antiquity as a cold green for wall paintings. It was used in panel paintings in the Renaissance. Next to green earths, malachite was the most important green pigment until the 18th century. On the left-hand side in the central area of the canvas, Polke painted an oval with the chemical pigment realgar. Realgar, also called ruby sulphur or ruby of arsenic, has a changing hue, which depends on the grind of the pigment. The darker shades are an orange-red, the lighter ones a yellow-orange, as seen in this painting. Although there are modern alternatives, Polke seems to have found processing the colours and pigments of the old masters with an awareness of modern times highly interesting.

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Wifredo Lam。-

Wifredo Lam * - Moderne-

(Kuba 1902–1982 Paris)
Ohne Titel, 1974, signiert und datiert (verblaßt), rückseitig signiert, datiert, Öl auf Leinwand, 50 x 40 cm, gerahmt

Provenienz:
Galleria Il Prisma, Cuneo
Galleria d’Arte Borgogna, Mailand
Galleria d’Arte Rizziero, Teramo (rückseitig Etikett)
Galleria Cafiso, Mailand (Fotozertifikat vorhanden)
Europäische Privatsammlung

Literatur:
L. L. Lam, E. Lam, Wifredo Lam. Catalogue Raisonné of the Painted Work, Bd. II 1961–1982, S. 460, Nr. 75 102 mit Abb.

Damals, in den 1950er Jahren, reisten wir sehr wenig. Die Strecke Mailand-Paris mit dem Nachtzug galt als eine große Reise.

Für Lam, den großen Nomaden der modernen Malerei, galt das nicht. Seine unbändige Neugier zu sehen und zu lernen trieb ihn dazu, ständig von einem Kontinent zum anderen zu reisen. Es heißt, er sei immer auf der Suche nach sich selbst, seinen Ursprüngen, den Voodoo-Mythen und dem Gott Changò. Wie Matta und Camacho wurde er im Dschungel geboren, in einer Welt der Magie und der Gewalt, der Stacheln, der Klauen, der Zähne und der Hörner. Der Urwald wimmelt von Wesen, die seine Formen reproduzieren: Schilf, Bambus, Palmen, Ebenholz, Mahagoni und Kakteen, alles in einem Universum aus Stacheln und speerartigen Sträuchern, die der Mensch fällen muss, um den Dschungel zu durchqueren.

(Enrico Baj, Il nomade della giungla, in „Wifredo Lam. Cuba Italia. Un percorso“, Silvana Editoriale 2002)

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PICART, BERNARD. 1673-1733.:The Ceremonies and Religious Customs of the Various Nations of the Known World. London: Claude Du Bosc, 1731-39.
7 volumes in 6. Folio (447 x 275 mm). Half titles, titles in red and black with engraved vignettes, engraved dedication page in volume IV, 215 (of 220) engraved plates, many double-page or folding, engraved illustrations and headers in text. Modern quarter morocco and marbled boards. A few pages re-margined at outside edges, leaf 5O2 (pp 419-420) in volume 3 torn through but complete, dampstaining, especially to last volumes, browning and spotting throughout.

FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, A richly illustrated landmark work on religious tolerance. \"No other work before then had ever attempted, in word and image, such a grand sweep of human religions, Religious Ceremonies of the World marked a major turning point in European attitudes toward religious beliefs and hence the sacred\" (Hunt, Jacob Mijnhardt The Book that Changed Europe: Picart and Bernard\'s Religious Ceremonies of the World p 1). Picart\'s engravings \"are indeed so finely executed, both in the drawing and engraving, that there are few plates even at this day which excel them\" (Field 1212, French edition). Sabin 4934.

皮卡特，伯纳德。1673-1733年。 已知世界各国的仪式和宗教习俗。伦敦：克劳德·杜·博斯克，1731-39年。

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阿里吉耶罗·波提-

Alighiero Boetti * - Zeitgenössische Kunst I-

(Turin 1940–1994 Rome)
Naturale Artificiale, 1982, 2 parts, ballpen on paper laid on canvas / biro su carta intelata, each 100 x 70 cm, on stretcher (2)

The work is registered in the Archivio Alighiero Boetti and is accompanied by a photo certificate of authenticity, Rome, 30 May 2007

Photo-certificate, issued by La Bertesca/c.o. Masnata, Genoa, signed by the artist, Rome, October 1983

Provenance:
The artist Francesco Masnata, Genoa (formerly Galleria La Bertesca)
Private Collection, Southem 德国y – acquired directly from the above in the late 1990s

Literature:
Jean-Christophe Ammann, Alighiero Boetti, Catalogo generale, Vol 3, Milan 2015, Vol. 3, no. 1391 (with color illustration)

The work NATURALE ARTIFICIALE comes from Alighiero Boetti\'s biro drawings series. The artist created unique artistic narratives through play, poetry, measure, numbers, order and disorder, which he combined with material diversity, conceptual complexity, and extraordinary visual beauty. Boetti began his biro series in the 1970s, when he created entire sheets collaboratively using different coloured biro ink. Each work in the series contains panels of images created by different students, similar to Boetti\'s well-known tapestries. With a consistently playful approach to \"simple\" ideas, Boetti posed fundamental questions about contemporary art production. The liminal space between artist and author is a major concern in Boetti\'s catalogue of works.

The biro work offered here is a diptych of two sheets hand-coloured with red biros. Looking at the diptych as a whole, the irregular structure, gradations and patterns become apparent. Latin letters are arranged in alphabetical order on the left edge of the picture. Distributed over the two halves of the picture are small white commas in a seemingly arbitrary arrangement. A closer look at the signs reveals that they each correspond to one of the letters of the alphabet. When read in sequence from left to right, they themselves spell out the work’s title NATURALE ARTIFICIALE. Boetti\'s biro works are generally abstract images that name themselves.

\"My works arise from changing forms of collaboration. I am interested in primary things like the alphabet, maps, newspapers - not least because of the sudden surge of order and disorder. Everything has its own precise order, even if that order is realised in a disorderly way.\"
Alighiero Boetti

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Jií（Georg）Dokoupil，当代艺术I-

Jiří (Georg) Dokoupil * - Zeitgenössische Kunst I-

(born in Krnov 1954)
Mis Mus Sian, 2014, titled, several times signed Dokoupil on the overlap, soap-lye and pigments on canvas, 250 x 300 cm or 300 x 250 cm (the work can be hung vertical or horizontal), on stretcher

Provenance:
Studio of the artist
Kasmin Gallery, New York
Private collection, 德国y

Literature:
Kasmin Gallery, Jiří (Georg) Dokoupil, New paintings,
exhibition catalogue, New York 2015
Jiří Georg Dokoupil, Soap Bubble Paintings, Berlin 2015

Exhibited:
Kasmin Gallery, New York, Jiří (Georg) Dokoupil, New paintings,
8 January - 7 February 2015

Jiří (Georg) Dokoupil has been putting his art on canvases since the 1970s - and for much of that time without a brush. He constantly reinvents the production of artworks, expresses his creativity with the most diverse materials, such as breast milk or fruit juices, and thinks \"outside the box\". His oeuvre now comprises about 140 series, which are not at all alike. He is a quick-change artist in the contemporary art world. Like a pop culture star, he completely reinvents his art with each series.

The early flight from his homeland and the associated deprivation of a national, social and personal identity meant the artist never developed a fixed style of his own. (Compare Wilfried Dickhoff, Soap Bubble Thinking, p.5, in: Jiří (Georg) Dokoupil..

Soap Bubble Paintings, Berlin 2015)
The Soap Bubble Paintings series is one of his longest-running series. The work offered here, \"Mis Mus Sian\", is part of it.

Standing on a ladder with a metal hoop, Jiří (Georg) Dokoupil. lowers his soap bubbles onto the canvas. He uses soap suds mixed with shimmering pigments, the exact composition of which he keeps strictly secret. The individual layers of soap bubbles, their shimmering pigments and superimpositions create a sphere of their own. The result is a depth undreamed of in a two-dimensional work, which can only be properly experienced through viewing the work in person. The soap bubbles glitter dynamically on the deep blue background of the painting and evoke movement through their different shapes and orientations. Due to the enormous format of over 250 x 300 cm, the experience of the work is like visiting a giant aquarium. At first, one is overwhelmed by the work’s abundance and appearance and, as time goes by, one dives deeper and deeper into its cosmos. The artist leaves it up to the owner to hang the work in portrait or landscape format. For this reason, he has signed the reverse on two sides.
„It’s all about making something that is not doable“
Jiří (Gerog) Dokupil

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克里斯托弗·威廉姆斯 LEICA TRI-ELMAR-M28-35-50 mm f/4 ASPH剖面图。视角：焦距28 mm：75，65，46焦距35 mm：63，54，38焦距50 mm：47，40，27和光学设计：6孔径：f/4 f/22比例：组合米/英尺增量徕卡M快速更换卡口对焦范围：1米到无限小物镜：焦距28毫米：750 x 1130毫米焦距35毫米：620 x 930毫米焦距50毫米：430 x 650毫米最高再现比：焦距28 mm：1:31焦距35毫米∶1:26焦距50毫米∶1:18 1998年至2007切割日期：未知摄影工作室Axel Gnad，Dsseldorf，2009年2月13日

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EINSTEIN\'S DOCTORATE CERTIFICATE FROM HIS \"MIRACULOUS YEAR\" OF 1905.:EINSTEIN, ALBERT. 1879-1955. Doctorate diploma awarded by the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Zurich at its meeting on 27 July 1905, regarding the dissertation of Albert Einstein, titled: \"Eine neue Bestimmung der Molekuldimensionen\" (\"A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions\"), issued in Zurich 15 January 1906. Printed document with signatures and two seals on vellum, 698 x 523 mm. Framed.

EINSTEIN\'S DOCTORATE CERTFICATE — THE CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT OF HIS \"ANNUS MIRABILIS\" obtained for his most frequently cited paper \"A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions\" (Einstein 1905b). During 1905, Einstein wrote 5 landmark papers including his thesis, all published in the Annalen der Physik, and all considered milestones in the foundation of modern physics. They revolutionized our understanding of space, time, mass, and energy and culminated in the world most famous mathematical equation E=mc2. The papers were:

- \"On a Heuristic Viewpoint Concerning the Production and Transformation of Light.\" \"Über einen die Erzeugung und Verwandlung des Lichtes betreffenden heuristischen Gesichtspunkt.\" Annalen der Physik 17, 1905 pp. 132-148.

- \"A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions.\" \"Eine neue Bestimmung der Moleküldimensionen.\" Bern: Buchdruckreei Wyss, 1906. Also slightly revised in Annalen der Physik. 19, 1906, pp 289–305.

- \"On the Movement of Small Particles Suspended in a Stationary Liquid Required by the Molecular-Kinetic Theory of Heat.\" \"Über die von der molekularkinetischen Theorie der Wärme geforderte Bewegung von in ruhenden Flüssigkeiten suspendierten Teilchen.\" Annalen der Physik.17, 1905, pp 549–560

- \"On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies.\" \"Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper.\" Annalen der Physik. 17, pp 901-921.

- \"Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?\" \"Über die von der molekularkinetischen Theorie der Wärme geforderte Bewegung von in ruhenden Flüssigkeiten suspendierten Teilchen.\" Annalen der Physik. 17, 1905, S. 549–560.

With a thesis on intermolecular forces Einstein attempted to earn a doctorate from the University of Zurich as early as 1901. He withdrew his paper shortly after he submitted it to Alfred Kleiner, Professor of Physics at the University of Zurich. His second attempted completed April 30, 1905 was more fruitful. On July 20, 1905, Einstein formally submitted another thesis to Dr. Kleiner, who enlisted the help of Heinrich Burkhardt, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Zurich, to check the calculations in Einstein\'s dissertation. Shortly after, on July 27 the philosophical faculty awarded Einstein with the doctorate, and issued the formal acknowledgement on January 15, 1906:

\"Unter der Oberhoheit der Behoerden und des Volkes des Kantons / und im Namen der / Universitaet Zuerich / hat die Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Sektion / der / Phiolosophischen Fakultaet / in Ihrer Sitzung vom 27 Juli 1905 / dem Herren / Albert Einstein / von Zuerich / auf Grund seiner Dissertation betitelt: / \"Eine Neue Bestimmung der Molekuldimensionen\" / und der Vorschriftsmaessigen Pruefungsausweis / die Rechte und Wuerden / eines Doctor der Philosophie / verliehen / und stellt zum Zeugnis dessen diese mit dem Universitaetsstempel versehene Urkunde aus / Gegegeben in Zurich / 15 Januar 1906 / Fuer den Akademischen Senat / der Rector Dr. Otto Haab / Fuer die II Sektion der Philosophischen Fakultaet / der Dekan: Prof. Dr. Rudolf Martin. With the paper seal of the \"Academia Turicensis MDCCC XXXIII\", under the signature of the dean the paper seal \"Philosophorum Turicensium Ordo\" in center.

In his dissertation Einstein \"combined the techniques of classical hydrodynamics with those of the theory of diffusion to create a new method for the determination of molecular sizes and of Avogadro\'s number, a method he applied to solute sugar molecules ... Compared to the other topics of his research at the time, his hydrodynamical method for determining molecular dimensions was a dissertation topic uniquely suited to the empirically oriented Zurich academic environment. In contrast to the Brownian-motion work, for which the experimental techniques needed to extract information from observations were not yet available, Einstein\'s hydrodynamical method for determining the dimensions of solute molecules enabled him to derive new empirical results from data in standard tables\" (Miraculous Year).

Years later Einstein remarked \"perhaps half-jokingly, that when he submitted his thesis, Professor Kleiner rejected it for being too short, so he added one more sentence and it was promptly accepted. There is no documentary evidence for this. Either way, his thesis actually became one of his most cited and practically useful papers, with applications in such diverse fields as cement mixing, dairy production, and aerosol products. And even though it did not help him get an academic job, it did make it possible for him to become known, finally, as Dr. Einstein\" (Isaacson).

Einstein\'s doctorate from the University of Zurich represents the cornerstone of his academic career that would take him from Zurich to Berlin and finally to Princeton, along the way transforming our perception of the cosmos, and the way we understand it.

Reference: Cawkell and Garfield. Assessing Einstein\'s impact on today\'s science by citation analysis. NY: 1980. P 32.
Isaacson. Einstein, His Life and Universe. New York: 2007. Pp 101-103.
Stachel, editor. The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein. Princeton: 1990. Vol 2, pp 170-182.
Stachel, editor. Einstein\'s Miraculous Year. Five Papers that Changed the Face of Physics. Princeton: 2005. Pp 31 and 37.

爱因斯坦1905年“奇迹年”的博士学位证书。 苏黎世大学哲学系在1905年7月27日的会议上颁发的博士学位证书，涉及阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦的论文，题为“Eine neue Bestimmung der Molekuldimensionen”，

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