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BELON, PIERRE. 1517-1564.:L\'histoire de la nature des oyseaux, avec leurs descriptions, naifs portraicts retirez du naturel. Paris: Guillaume Cavellat, 1555.
Folio (320 x 218 mm). 7 parts in one volume. Woodcut printer\'s device on title and six sectional titles, woodcut portrait of Belon on title verso, two woodcuts of human and bird skeletons and 158 large woodcuts in text of birds by Pierre Gourdelle and others, numerous 11-line and smaller ornamental woodcut initials and head-pieces. Mid-18th-century vellum (endpapers watermarked 1742). Two leaves (l1 and g5) with repaired tears crossing text, some minor staining.

FIRST EDITION (Cavellat issue). One of the most important ornithological works of the Renaissance illustrated with beautiful woodcuts drawn from observation of live specimens. Belon, \"one of the founders of the renewed studies of birds ... mentions about two hundred different birds, mainly European, but some foreign. He made many original observations ... [also treating] anatomical and morphological conditions\" (Anker), whilst also drawing upon earlier writers such as Aristotle and Pliny. Schwerdt notes that the second part \"is interesting to falconers,\" the fine woodcut illustrations including a depiction of a falconer luring a bird, and several of owls, \"including the eagle owl, much used in hawking.\" Anker pp 9-10; BM/STC French p 46; Garrison-Morton-Norman 283 (Cavellat issue); Harvard/Mortimer French 50; Nissen IVB 86; Norman 180.

贝隆，皮埃尔。1517-1564. 奥赛奥克斯的自然历史，连同他们的描述和侏儒肖像画从自然中移除。巴黎：纪尧姆·卡韦拉特，1555年。

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RÖSEL VON ROSENHOF, AUGUST JOHANN. 1705-1759.:Der monatlich-herausgegebenen Insecten-Belustigung. Nuremburg: Johann Joseph Fleischman, 1746-1761.
WITH: RÖSEL VON ROSENHOF, AUGUST JOHANN; KATHARINA BARABARA RÖSEL VON ROSENHOF; and CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH CARL KLEEMANN. Der beyträge zur Natur-oder Insecten-Geschichte erster Theil. [Nuremburg: 1776].
Together, 5 volumes. 4to (209 x 174 mm). Hand-colored engraved frontispiece in volume I, hand-colored engraved half-titles in volumes II and III (with additional engraved section half-title after p 432 in volume III), engraved portrait in volume IV; 247 hand-colored engraved plates in volumes I-IV, some with two illustrations per plate, and 44 additional plates in the second work (volume V). Modern quarter tan morocco and marbled boards, tissue guards. Browning, foxing, and minor offsetting throughout; marginal dampstaining to volume V.

RÖSEL VON ROSENHOF\'S COMPLETE WORKS ON INSECTS, including the much rarer posthumous work, completed by his daughter Katharina and her husband, artist and astronomer Christian Friedrich Carl Kleemann. Born to an aristocratic family in Austria, August Johann Rösel was raised by his uncle, noted animal painter Wilhelm Rösel von Rosenhof, from whom he inherited the \"von Rosenhof\" title. His observations in this work cover marine invertebrates as well as insects, and his detailed classifications made him a pioneer among European entomologists, influencing Carl Linnaeus, among others. Nissen ZBI 3466 and 2201.

奥塞尔·冯·罗森霍夫（RÖSEL von ROSENHOF），8月JOHANN。1705-1759. 每月的昆虫娱乐。纽伦堡：约翰·约瑟夫·弗莱斯曼，1746-1761年。

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HOOKE, ROBERT. 1635-1703.:Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667.
Folio (288 x 190 mm). Title with engraved arms of the Royal Society, 38 engraved plates (14 folding). Contemporary calf, rebacked. Some plates trimmed closely, a few short tears along folds, some light browning and staining, mostly marginal.
Provenance: Dan. King (ink note: \"book cost Dan. King second hand October 1st, 1716 pound 1:06:6\"); Edward Howard, 9th Duke of Norfolk (1686–1777), Earl Marshall of England (armorial bookplate); \"Belonging to the library bequeathed by the Will of Edward Duke of Norfolk to remain in his Family. Henry Howard Tho\'s Eyre Esq\'rs Executors\" (bookplate); The Royal Meteorological Society, 1793 (deaccession label).

FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE OF HOOKE\'S MOST CELEBRATED WORK, with the title dated 1667 instead of 1665. \"THE MOST INFLUENTIAL WORK IN THE HISTORY OF MICROSCOPY, CONTAINING THE DISCOVERIES MADE WITH HOOKE\'S NEWLY PERFECTED COMPOUND MICROSCOPE. Micrographia was not only the first book devoted entirely to microscopical observations, but also the first to pair its descriptions with profuse and detailed illustrations, and this graphic portrayal of a hitherto unseen world had an impact rivaling that of Galilieo\'s Sidereus nuncius ... his famous and dramatic portraits of the flea and louse, a frightening eighteen inches long, are hardly less startling today than they must have been to Hooke\'s contemporaries\" (Norman). Dibner Heralds of Science 187; Garrison-Morton-Norman 262; Heirs of Hippocrates 599; Horblit Science 50; Norman 1092; PMM 147.

胡克，罗伯特。1635-1703. 显微摄影：放大镜对微小物体的一些生理描述。伦敦：英国皇家学会詹姆斯·阿利斯特，1667年。

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CASTELL, WILLIAM. D. 1645. :A Short Discoverie Of the Coasts and Continent of America. London: [no printer], 1644.
8vo (163 x 94 mm). Title and dedication supplied in early expert manuscript facsimile (see below), and signature B (4 leaves) lacking, some pagination along top edges shaved, four leaves at beginning repaired along upper margin twice affecting first line of text, a few other small repairs. 19th century calf gilt by Pratt, hinges split, light rubbing to spine ends and corners.
Provenance: Henry Stevens (bound by W. Pratt for H. Stevens, 1860, binder\'s stamp on front free endpaper, his sale \"Bibliotheca Americana\" Puttick and Simpson, 7 March, 1861, lot 514); Anson Phelps Stokes (1838-1913) bibliographer (bookplate, his sale Parke-Bernet, New York, 15 November 1948, lot 58).

FIRST EDITION, THE MOST ACCURATE ENGLISH DESCRIPTION OF NEW YORK BEFORE 1650, from the collection of noted bibliographers and Americana collectors Henry Stevens and Anson Phelps Stokes. The full title reads: A Short Discoverie Of the Coasts and Continent of America, From the Equinoctiall Northward, and of the adjacent Isles. Whereunto is prefixed the Authors Petition to this present Parliament, for the propagation of the Gospell in America; attested by many eminent English and Scottish Divines. And a late Ordinance of Parliament for that purpose, and for the better government of the English Plantations there. Together with Sir Benjamin Rudyers Speech in Parliament, 21. Jan. concerning America. Stevens states that this work \"should find a place in every collection of the so-called \'Eliot Tracts,\' for herein is contained the embryo idea or suggestion that Parliament should recognize the benefits to be derived by the colonies from cultivating the friendship of the Indians. EXCEEDINGLY RARE, only one other copy sold at auction (according to American Book Prices Current) in the past 45 years. Church 461; OCLC : 1238118938; Sabin 11398; Stevens, Bibliotheca Americana Vol 1, p 123; Wing C-1231.

威廉·卡斯特尔。D、 1645年。 美国海岸和大陆的短暂发现。伦敦：（没有打印机），1644年。

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LOBEL, MATTHIAS DE. 1538-1616. :Plantarum seu Stirpium Historia [Bound with]: PENA, PIERRE and MATTHIAS DE LOBEL. Nova stirpium adversaria. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1576.
Folio (315 x 225 mm). 2 parts in 1. Title within woodcut architectural border, woodcut illustrations by Antonii van Leest, Gerard Janssen van Kampen, et al. throughout, pasted-in illustrations on R3r and R4v, second work with 2 pasted-in illustrations on X6v and Ll2v, and 3 slips with woodcut illustrations tipped onto A6, C5 N4. Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over beveled wooden boards, roll-tooled roundels of Luther, Erasmus and Melancthon on upper and rear boards, paper spine label, metal clasps; covers soiled, paper repairs to title, occasional toning and foxing.
Provenance: ink drawing of palm tree with ms notes by an early owner on rear paste-down; \"Kroeber\" (signature to front free endpaper); Naturforschende Gesellschaft (ink stamp on title).

FIRST EDITION OF LOBEL\'S STIRPIUM OBSERVATIONES AND THE SECOND, ENLARGED ISSUE OF NOVA STIRPIUM ADVERSARIA. The first work is a companion to the Nova Stirpium Adversaria, \"one of the milestones of modern botany\" (DNB), first published in London 1570-1 by Thomas Purfoot. Plantin purchased 800 copies of the London printing, re-issuing the original sheets with a new title page and expanded end matter and publishing it together with the first edition of De Lobel\'s Plantarum seu Stirpium Historia. \"The chief importance of this herbal lies in its system of classification which is better than that used by any contemporary botanist\" (Hunt I, p 28). Hunt 126-7; Nissen BBI 1218; Pritzel 5548.

洛贝尔，马蒂亚斯·德。1538-1616年。 Plantarum seu Stirpium Historia[绑定]：PENA、PIERRE和MATTHIAS DE LOBEL。对抗性新星。安特卫普：克里斯托弗·普兰廷，1576年。

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DOSTOEVSKY CARTE-DE-VISITE INSCRIBED TO ALEXANDER HERZEN.:DOSTOEVSKY, FYODOR. 1821-1881. Photograph signed and inscribed [in Russian] to Alexander Herzen, albumen print carte-de-visite full length portrait by M.B. Tulinov, Petersburg, 1861, 105 x 65 mm, inscribed by Dostoevsky in Russian to the verso, \"Alexander Ivanovich Herzen in memory of our meeting in London. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 8 July/20 July 1862,\" minor stain to verso.
Provenance: Alexander Ivanovich Herzen; to daughter Olga Aleksandrovna [Herzen] Monod; by descent.
Publication: For a discussion of the photograph, see Volgin, Igor. \"Introduction\" to The Dostoevsky Archive (1997), p 21.

Pull quote: \"Herzen awaits his readers in the future. Far above the heads of the present crowd, he transmits his thoughts to those who will be able to comprehend them.\" – Leo Tolstoy, 1905.

VERY RARE CARTE DE VISITE PHOTOGRAPH OF FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY PRESENTED TO ALEXANDER HERZEN IN REMEMBRANCE OF THEIR 1862 MEETING IN LONDON: A TREMENDOUSLY IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION BETWEEN TWO OF THE LEADING INTELLECTUALS OF THE 19TH-CENTURY.

Alexander Herzen was one of the most important and influential Russian writers and thinkers of the 19th-century. called the \"father of Russian socialism,\" he had a profound influence on late-19th century Russian writers, including Fyodor Dostoevsky. Born illegitimately to a wealthy Russian landowner, Herzen became a dissident and critic of the Russian feudal system. Of Herzen, Tolstoy said he had never met a man \"with so rare a combination of scintillating brilliance and depth.\" His writings, including From the Other Shore (1848) and those appearing in his influential publications of the 1850s-60s The Bell and the Polestar, would help mold a generation of Russian writing and thought.

Herzen and Dostoevsky met for the first time in Russia in 1846, following Dostoevsky\'s comment in a letter to his brother that Herzen and Goncharov stand as \"the most remarkable\" of his rivals; Herzen\'s recollection of the meeting was less than effusive, however: \"I can\'t say he made a particularly present impression.\" Their second meeting occurred when Dostoevsky visited Herzen in London in July of 1862, of which this photograph is a memento. During the 1850s and early 1860s, visits to the emigree Herzen by Russian writers and intellectuals were something of a right of passage, and Dostoevsky\'s visit followed right on the heels of Turgenev. This series of meetings profoundly affected Dostoevsky and his work, and is clearly acknowledged in his Winter Notes which he wrote later that year, exhibiting a clear debt to Herzen\'s own writings. Dostoevsky, along with Solzhenitsyn, acknowledged the formative influence of Herzen on his work, and Herzen would also appear in composite in a number of Dostoevsky\'s characters throughout his career. Herzen, however, noted, rather condescendingly, \"Dostoevsky was here yesterday—he is a naïve, not entirely lucid, but a very dear person. He believes enthusiastically in the Russian people.\"

The two towering figures would meet again on a steamship from Naples to Livorno the following year, where Dostoevsky was travelling with his mistress Polina Suslova. According to Suslova\'s diaries (as published in The Dostoevsky Archives), Dostoevsky took pains to hide their relationship from Herzen, introducing her vaguely as a family member, and even encouraged her to arrange a visit with Herzen\'s son in Paris that Winter. After they parted, Dostoevsky became angry with her over a photograph of her he had seen at Herzen\'s, which she had given at an earlier date. In 1865, Dostoevsky wrote to Herzen imploring him for a loan, and became peevish when Herzen did not immediately respond. By the late 1860s Dostoevsky would disparage Herzen, somewhat unfairly, as a \"Westernizer,\" leading to his more severe criticism of Herzen in his Writer\'s Diary.

Herzen was one of the most complex and brilliant figures of the 19th-century, and was largely responsible for assimilating western ideas into Russian thought, while still maintaining his advocacy for the freedom of the Russian serf.

In reality, the two writers/thinkers shared a great deal in their outlook: both asserted the importance of the individual, and the folly of the search for a unified teleological system, cutting against the grain of their mid-19th century contemporaries. While Herzen was embraced by Lenin, identified as the \"father of Russian socialism,\" Herzen\'s socialism was a different breed, \"Centralization may do a great deal for order and for various public undertakings, but it is incompatible with freedom. It easily brings a nation to the position of a well-tended flock or a pack of hounds cleverly kept in order by a huntsman.\" Lenin regarded Herzen\'s focus on freedom as a shortcoming of his bourgeois roots. During the 20th-century Russian-British philosopher Isaiah Berlin came across Herzen\'s writings and recognized the prescience of Herzen\'s thought. It was Berlin, who reestablished Herzen\'s influence, agreeing with and amplifying his idea that the pursuit of \"a perfect society\" invariably leads to blood.

The present photograph was taken by Mikhail Borisovich Tulinov (1823–1889) in Petersburg in 1861. Any period photograph of Dostoevsky is rare, and moreso inscribed. We trace two inscribed photographs at auction in the last 40 years. However, we find no record of an inscribed photograph of similar substance and importance in the historical record. An incredible, and incredibly rare, Dostoevsky item tying together two of the greatest thinkers and writers of the 19th-century.

REFERENCES:
Kelly, Aileen. The Discovery of Chance: The Life and Thought of Alexander Herzen. 2016.
Kelly, Aileen. \"Irony and Utopia in Herzen and Dostoevsky: From the Other Shore and Diary of a Writer.\" The Russian Review, 50:4 (1991), pp 397-416.
Lantz, Kenneth. The Dostoevsky Encycolpedia. 2004.
Serakin, Peter. The Dostoevsky Archive: Firsthand Accounts of the Novelist from Contemporaries\' Memoirs and Rare Periodicals. 1997.


\"If only people wanted to save themselves instead of saving the world, how much they would do for the salvation of the world and the liberation of humanity!\" – Alexander Herzen, From the Other Shore, 1848.

多斯托耶夫斯基的名片上写着亚历山大·赫尔岑。 照片署名并题写（俄语）给亚历山大·赫尔岑，

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MUNDINUS (DI LUZZI, MONDINO). 1275–1326.:MELLERSTADT, MARTINUS, editor. c.1455-1513. Anathomia Mundini emendata per doctorem melerstat. [Leipzig: Martin Landsberg, 1493.]
4to (200 x 140 mm). 40 leaves, 34 lines, title with full-page woodcut of an anatomical scene. Modern calf antique. Inner margin of title neatly reinforced, tiny repair to blank outer margin of last leaf, illegible old library stamp to lower margin of title page, scattered light browning, mostly marginal.

FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF THE FIRST DEDICATED ANATOMY BOOK. \"The first modern book devoted solely to anatomy ... Mundinus re-introduced human dissection, which had been neglected for 1500 years before him; he was the most noted dissector of his period, and he set forth the medieval anatomical vocabulary, deriving it mainly from Arabic\" (Garrison). Mondino de\' Luzzi, professor at Bologna, is considered to be the founder of anatomy in the Middle Ages. His treatise remained popular until the beginning of the 16th-century and appeared in multiple editions.

\"The subject of anatomy was not taught either by lectures or by dissection in the universities at the middle of the fifteenth century. An occasional \'anatomy\' was held, but the neglect of the subject is well illustrated by the absence of anatomical books. There is only one in the list, that of Mundinus . . . Mundinus was a professor at Bologna from 1306 to 1326, and was the first to teach anatomy from the subject, usually the corpse of a condemned criminal; but there is the record of a procedure in 1319 against four medical students for body-snatching. His Anatomia, written in 1316, was for two hundred years the popular text book\" (Osler).

In the introduction of the book, Mundinus says, \"proposui meis scholaribus in medicina quoddam opus componere, \'I have proposed to compose a work in medicine for my scholars.\" The work \"met a need universally felt just at that time and commended itself for its brevity, conciseness, and completeness, as well as for the fact that it taught for each separate organ the necessary anatomic technique, as. for example, in the first chapter: \'Situato itaque corpore vel homine mortuo per decollationem vel suspensionem supino\', etc., \'accordingly, laying out the body of a man dead by decapitation or hanging, etc....\" (Choulant). VERY RARE: According to American Book Prices Current no copy sold in the past 42 years. Choulant-Frank History and Bibliography of Anatomic Illustration (Chicago 1920, pp 88-93); Garrison-Morton-Norman 361 (for the 1478 edition); Goff M-874; GW M-25671 (recording only 2 copies/fragments); Hain 11633; see Osler Incunabula Medica 156; Wellcome I, 4484.

蒙迪尼斯（DI LUZZI，MONDINO）。1275–1326. 阿纳托米娅·蒙迪尼由梅勒斯塔特医生修正。[莱比锡：马丁·兰茨贝格，1493年。]

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BIBLE IN ENGLISH: THE GREAT \"SHE\" BIBLE.:The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New. London: Robert Barker, [1613] - 1611. Folio (390 x 257 mm). title and final leaf supplied in facsimile, lacking 2 quires A and F, and with 19 leaves supplied from a later edition, engraved map of Canaan by John Speed, loosely inserted, and with its margins restored with some loss. Title to New Testament title dated 1611, set within wide woodcut pictorial borders, wood-cut head and tail pieces, calendar and almanack printed in red and black, occasional light toning, a few upper margins cut slightly close to border line. Paneled calf, antique, red speckled edges.
Collation: A1 (General Title, a facsimile of the He Bible and dated 1611), A2-4 (a2 margin slightly restored, a few restored holes affecting letters), B1-4, C1-6, D1-4: Quire A1-6 lacking (Title to genealogies and first 11 pages), B-E6, (Lacking quire F1-6), G-Z6, Aa-Zz6, Aaa-Zzz6 (rrr1 outer and lower margins torn with loss), Aaaa-Zzzz6, Aaaaa-Ccccc6;
New Testament: A-Z6 (with 15 leaves P1-6, S3-4, V5, X2-6 and Z3 all silked and damaged, and supplied from a shorter later edition, possibly the 1617 folio edition), 6A 1-5 supplied from another folio edition, 6A6 a facsimile leaf.
Provenance: Exhibited by Mr. Young (of Leicester, UK) in the early 20th Century, with a printed and manuscript exhibition label, containing manuscript notes on the typographical errors in the \"SHE\" Bible, the label loosely inserted at the front.

THE KING JAMES\' GREAT \"SHE\' BIBLE, THE SECOND FOLIO EDITION, with the reading in Ruth 3:15 corrected to \"She went into the citie,\" and with other errors including Matthew 26:36 where Judas appears for Jesus, but in this copy that error has been a corrected in an 18th century manuscript hand.

The King James Great Bible is considered to be the most important English Bible to have been printed. The biblical scholar Francis Fry described the \"SHE\" Bible as the first edition second issue without reprints, printed within two years of the first issue to correct typographical errors that were found in the text. The King James Bible was drawn up to reconcile the versions of the bible used by the Clergy, on the one hand, and the laity on the other. The translators, who numbered around 50, were divided into committees based in Oxford. Cambridge and London, and they were instructed to take the Bishops Bible as their basis and then consult with Tyndale\'s, Coverdale\'s, Matthew\'s, Whitchurch\'s and the Geneva versions to come up with an authorized text. This copy, although with facsimile first and last leaves, and two quires lacking, is substantially complete. \"From about the middle of the seventeenth century until the appearance of the Revised Bible of 1881-5, the King James\' version reigned without rival\"(Herbert 319). cf. PMM 114; STC 2224.

英语圣经：伟大的“她”圣经。 《圣经》、《旧约》和《新约》。伦敦：罗伯特·巴克，[1613]-1611。

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KEPLER, JOHANNES. 1571-1630. :Tabulae Rudolphinae, quibus astronomicae scientiae, temporum longinquitate collapsae restauratio continentur. Ulm: Jonas Saur, 1627.
Folio (330 x 226 mm). Roman and italic types, double column, printed shoulder notes. Engraved allegorical frontispiece designed by Kepler, depicting Hipparchus, Ptolemy, Copernicus, Brahe, and Kepler gathered in the Temple of Urania, numerous woodcut diagrams in text, including a full-page of diagrams on k3v, woodcut initials, large woodcut device on part 2 section title. With the 4-leaves \"Sportula genethliacis missa\" (q4) printed in Sagan and dated 1629, inserted after the tabulae. Early 18th-century half-sheep and mottled boards, spine gilt in 7 compartments with red and green morocco lettering piece, red speckled edges, a few gatherings (including \"Sportula\", sig. q, issued in 1629) browned (as often). Provenance: Co. Riccati (Jacopo Francesco Riccati (1676-1754, Venetian mathematician; bookplate on title verso).

FIRST EDITION OF KEPLER\'S LAST LIFETIME PUBLICATION AND HIS CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT, THE \"FOUNDATION OF ALL PLANETARY CALCULATIONS FOR OVER A CENTURY\" (Sparrow). Third state, with second quire [):():(⁴] on different paper, albeit trimmed here to the same size as the adjacent leaves. \"The tables are extraordinarily important, for they document in a unique way Kepler\'s great contributions to astronomy\" (Gingerich). \"Besides the planetary, solar, and lunar tables and the associated tables of logarithms it includes Tycho Brahe\'s catalog of 1,000 fixed stars, a chronological synopsis, and a list of geographical positions ... Kepler was an astronomer\'s astronomer. It was the astronomers who recognized the immense superiority of the Tabulae Rudolphinae. For the professionals the improvement in planetary predictions was a forceful testimony to the efficacy of the Copernican system\" (Sparrow). Based on Tycho Brahe\'s observations, the tables were then supplemented by Kepler\'s own observations. The calculations were a major mathematical achievement, as of course, Brahe\'s data applied erroneously to \"perfect\" circular orbits. Kepler had discovered the true elliptical shape of the planetary orbits, and thus, had to recalculate everything according to his new laws. The printing history of the book, during the 30 years\' war, is quite complex. There were 1000 copies printed in Ulm in 1627, with three known states, affecting the title and the first two gatherings. Some copies are known with a posthumously published world map, and some have a posthumous appendix - neither is present in this copy. \"In excusing the long delay in publication... [Kepler] mentioned in the preface [p. 6] not only the difficulties of obtaining his salary and of the wartime conditions but also \'the novelty of my discoveries and the unexpected transfer of the whole of astronomy from fictitious circles to natural causes, which were most profound to investigate, difficult to explain, and difficult to calculate, since mine was the first attempt\'\" (DSB). Caspar 79; Gingerich Johannes Kepler and the Rudolphine tables; Houzeau and Lancaster 12754; Lalande p 190; Norman 1208; Sparrow 116.

开普勒，约翰内斯。1571-1630. 鲁道夫的桌子被称为天文学，包括餐厅倒塌的时间。乌尔姆：乔纳斯·索，1627年。

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POGANY, WILLY. 1882-1955.:14 costume designs for The Thunderbird, one-act Aztec ballet choreographed by Michel Fokine with libretto by his wife Vera Fokina, performed in the revue Get Together, opened at the New York Hippodrome, September 3, 1921, watercolor, gouache and silver paint over pencil, 13 measure 480 x 348 mm (19 x 13 5/8 inches); and one for Vera Fokina measuring 535 x 370 mm (20 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches), all but one signed \"Willy Pogany\" and four with Fokine\'s autograph pencil notation \"O. K./ M. Fokine,\" with additional manuscript notes in Russian and English, many in his hand, on versos, various date labels affixed to the versos, fabric samples to the verso of one, some chipping to corners, minor soiling. Housed in custom cloth box, morocco title label Willy Pogany 1882-1955 on spine.

FINE COLLECTION OF POGANY COSTUME DESIGNS FOR FOKINE\'S THE THUNDERBIRD. Hungarian-born artist Willy Pogány was one of the most versatile artists of the early 20th Century. He first gained fame as an exceptional children\'s and other gift book illustrator after he moved to London in 1908. Ten years later he came to the United States where he became a prolific contributor to books and magazines and a busy set and costume designer for Broadway, the Metropolitan Opera and the movies. His murals graced theaters and apartment buildings. In Hollywood, he was art director for many motion pictures including Dames, Dante\'s Inferno, Kid Millions and Wonder Bar. Walter Lantz\'s Technicolor animated short Scrambled Eggs (1939) featured Pogány\'s Peterkin, a mischievous satyr.

Michel Fokine (1880-1942) was one of the most influential dancers and choreographers of the Modern Era. Sergei Diaghilev made him resident choreographer of the Ballets Russes in 1909. Among his greatest ballets for this company were The Firebird (1910); Petrushka (1912); and Le Spectre de la Rose (1911) in which Nijinsky danced the lead role. He and his wife, ballerina Vera Fokina, left Russia in 1918. After the triumphal 1918 New York debut of Rimsky-Korsakov\'s opera Le Coq d\'or at The Met as a ballet by Fokine with sets and costumes by Pogány (\"as mad as Trotzky [sic] and twice as exhilarating\"), the choreographer and his designer teamed again for a new ballet based on an Aztec legend. The Thunderbird was the highlight of Dillingham\'s oddly assorted Broadway revue Get Together. Fokina was responsible for the libretto; and she and her husband danced as Princess Nahua and Atzlan. The music was a selection from Russian composers Borodin, Glinka and Tchaikovsky, and Fokine also choreographed a ballet on ice for the show based on \"The Red Shoes.\" \"Fokine has done a gorgeous piece of choreography, and Mr. Pogany has given it setting and costumes that surpass anything he has heretofore done, not even his \'Coq d\'Or.\' The story of the princess released by love from the power of a wizard and her union with her warrior lover is beautifully told\" (New York Tribune, Sept. 5, 1921). The Thunderbird was like a Native American Firebird. Perhaps the loveliest of Pogány\'s designs was for Fokina\'s princess, a silver costume with white ostrich plumes.

帕甘，威利。1882-1955. 《雷鸟》（The Thunderbird）的14件服装设计，由米歇尔·福金（Michel Fokine）编舞，由其妻子维拉·福金娜（Vera Fokina）演唱剧本，是一幕阿兹特克芭蕾舞剧，于1921年9月3日在纽约竞技场开幕，