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Smith, AdamBiblio.com

AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS WITH A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR

Hamberger, Georg Albrecht: - Bernhardi, Adam BethmannBiblio.com

Optica oculorum vitia : sub praesidio Georgii Alberti Hambergeri . in Academia Jenensi doctorum oculis ad diem . Octobr. MDCIVC sujiciet Adamus Behmannus Bernhardi .

1707524801707. Jena : Literis Gollnerianis 1707 Kl.-4° 2 64 pp. mit 1 Kupfertafel feiner Pappband im Stil d. Zeit. Rare - Second Edition of the first monograph on refractive errors ! "Physiology in general and physiologic optics in specific made great progress during the 18th century. These advances were at first made not by practicing ophthalmologists but the mathematicians and physicists. This situation is therefore similar to that of the 17th century when progress was achieved by Kepler Scheiner Kircher Mariotte Hooke Rohault Deschales Huygens and others. The mathematician Georg Albrecht Hamberger 1662-1716 was the author of a most curios monograph which was printed toward of the end of the 17th century. Modern historian did not know about it and it is not mentioned by A. Hirsch not by Helmholtz in the second edition of his Physiological Optik. It is difficult to determine how much this book influenced the thought progress of the 18th century. It is only mentioned in the review of the literature by Julius Beer in his first 'Augenheilkunde' of 1792 and Haller quotes it in his 'Elementa physiologiae humani' ." The book is called: Optica oculorum vitia sub praesidio Geogrii Alberti Hambergeri . This is the first monograph on refractive errors - the root so to speak from which 170 years later the classical book by Donders evolved; the monograph is for its time extraordinarily clear strictly mathematical and physical written in an entirely different spirit from the scholastic descriptions of the fourth book by Plempius "Opthalmographia" 1632 and also far superior to the corresponding remarks in Boerhaave's lectures on ophtahlmology 1708 printed in 1746 to 1771. These two publications are usually regarded as the beginning of physiologic optics. . Also Modern ocular hygiene was created by Professor Hamberger in Jena in 1696 . Only the reform of ophthalmology during the middle of the 19th century which was based on the ophthalmoscope and the correct recognition of refraction changed the situation." Hirschberg/Blodi IV pp.284-291 "Es ist dies die erste Sonderschrift über die Fehler der Einstellung des Auges . für die damalige Zeit außerordentlich klar streng mathematisch-physikalisch . geschrieben . Die Hygiene des Auges . ist in den zahllosen Schriften über diesen Gegenstand die um die Wende des 18. zum 19. Jahrhundert . erschienen sind nur wenig verbessert und erweitert worden " Hirschberg unknown

MedicusBooks.Com · Allemagne1 260,00 €

Adam SmithBiblio.com

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations copy #36 of the finely bound limited Japanese bicentennial edition a pristine set still housed in the publisher's original shipping box and accompanied by the publisher's original invitation to the 1976 publication party and Bibliographical Story of The Wealth of Nations

007942Tokyo: Yushudo Booksellers Ltd. 1976. Limited Numbered Finally Bound Bicentennial Edition. Full leather. This large lovely finely bound edition of one of the most important works of economics is compellingly handsome intriguing in origin and a perfectly-preserved half-century old time capsule. Per the limitation statement: This facsimile edition is issued to commemorate the bicentenary of the first edition of The Wealth of Nations. Planned cooperatively by English American and Japanese firms it is published by Yushodo Booksellers Ltd. Tokyo 1976. One thousand copies have been printed of which 981 are for sale. These two-volume sets are magnificently substantial each volume measuring 11.75 x 9.75 x 1.75 inches 29.8 x 24.8 x 4.5 cm and together in their slipcase weighing 9 pounds 4 ounces 4.2 kg. The bindings are full pebble grain reddish-brown Morocco goatskin with raised spine bands bracketed by double gilt rules with gilt printed and gilt decorated compartments. The contents are printed on laid paper and bound with silk head and tail bands and marbled endpapers. The two volumes are housed together in a rigid blue cloth-covered slipcase the interior lined with white felt. This set is number 36 so identified by 36 hand-written on the Volume 1 limitation statement. Condition is as-new owing to the fact that the set has spent the half-century since publication sealed in the publishers original stout two-piece cardboard shipping box which features a label printed in both English and Japanese with the set number number 36 handwritten thereon. This shipping box is in rather remarkable condition clean and intact with only minor scuffs and bumps. Within the books are essentially as they were when placed within by the publisher; the bindings contents and slipcase are all immaculate with no signs of wear soiling spotting or handling. Accompanying this set are two items attendant to original publication. The first of these documents a small folding brochure measuring 7.25 x 5.25 inches 18.4 x 13.3 cm featuring a front cover illustration of Smith is the original publication party announcement and invitation held at 4:00 p.m. Monday October 4th 1976 at Hotel Grand Palace. This was apparently a major event including a film. The second item is a 44-page perfect-bound book in strikingly-textured gray card wraps and measuring 8.25 x 5.75 inches 21.6 x 14.6 cm. This book is the Bibliographical Story of The Wealth of Nations with authorship credited to W. R. Todd and K. E. Carpenter and a Japanese author the contents printed almost entirely in Japanese. The 1976 copyright specified on the title page verso is held by the publisher Yushodo Booksellers Ltd. The Wealth of Nations was first published in 1776 strikingly coincident to the Declaration of Independence by the fledgling American republic that would in time become the standard bearer for the development potential of market forces. Wealth has gone through innumerable editions in the ensuing quarter of a millennium. The Wealth of Nations had no rival in scope or depth when published and is still one of the few works in its field to have achieved classic status meaning simply that it has sustained yet survived repeated reading critical and adulatory long after the circumstances which prompted it have become the object of historical enquiry. ODNB Wealth has been recognized as the first work of political economy. As philosopher Smith had taken up the challenge of providing an imaginary machine that would render coherent the everyday appearances of an emerging world. In contrast to the existing systems agricultural and mercantile he advanced a system of natural liberty capable of supporting a branch of the science of a legislator or statesman Smith WN 428 which had grown in significance in all modern societies where commerce was beginning to dominate their domestic and international economic relations. The object of the science was to amend the related practical art by providing legislators with a set of principles to guide their actions and inactions partly by advocating improvements in existing policies and institutions partly by altering the general climate of opinion within which these matters were discussed. ODNB Yushudo Booksellers Ltd. hardcover

Churchill Book Collector · États-Unis1 450,00 $US≈ 1 226,85 €

Kwietniewski, Andrzej and Adam Rzepecki, illustrationsBiblio.com

POLISH UNOFFICIAL ART - CONCEPTUAL ART Prawdziwa Historia "ÅÃ³dÅºi Kaliskie" The true history of ÅÃ³dÅº Kaliska

55153KrakÃ³w: self-published 1984. Quarto 19.5 Ã— 14.3 cm. Original side-stapled black card wrappers; 8 leaves of text and illustrations to rectos only. Light wear to spine; else very good. An artist book by the founding members of ÅÃ³dÅº Kaliska Andrzej Kwietniewski and Adam Rzepecki narrating the history of the performance art group with short satirical texts and drawings. The neo-Dadaist art collective was founded in 1979 with this book describing the group's activities including their first street performance titled "partitioning the street with a black ribbon to create confusion and distract attention in order to throw a white sheet over a group of people tie them up and hit them on their asses." The group's first manifesto written by Marek Janiak and Andrzej Kwietniewski appeared in 1980. The text typed in Polish and English self-consciously parodied the manifesto as the signature genre of the avant-garde. Numerous mock-manifestos appeared throughout the 1980s using logical errors to articulate gibberish ethical codes. Art historian Piotr Piotrowski writes: "The concept of anarchism was key for this particular formation since the artists involved were mainly interested in rejecting any form of authority: political opposition ideological nationalism and religion as well as cultural institutions and grand art historic narratives. By relying on humor pastiche parody and coarse eroticism their performances and short films were supposed to strip art of its pathos knock it off its pedestal and tear it out of the frame provided by the historical discourse" see Art and Democracy in Post-Communist Europe pp. 130-131. In keeping with the group's principles most of the members had no formal training in fine arts. Members of the group included Marek Janiak Andrzej Kwietniewski Adam Rzepecki Andrzej Åšwietlik Andrzej WielogÃ³rski with Zofia Åuczko joining in 1983. Creating a limited edition and signing the item was part of Kwietniewski's joke on the circulation of art. No. 9 of 10 numbered copies. As of May 2025 not in KVK OCLC. unknown

Penka Rare Books and Archives · Allemagne1 200,00 €

Alexander AdamBiblio.com

Roman Antiquities or An Account of The Manners and Customs of the Romans

1791286London: A. Strahan and T. Cadell 1791. First edition. 1/2 near contemporary calf. Very Good. VERY RARE. Reprinted numerous times throughout the late 1700s and into the 1800s this is the impressively hard to find first edition. WorldCat only identifies six institutions with a copy including the British Library. RareBookHub shows only later editions coming to a recorded auction including the scarce second edition but never the first edition. Condition: VG. Complete including errata leaf. Roman antiquities ; or an account of the manners and customs of the Romans; Respecting Their Government Magistracy Laws Judicial Proceedings Religion Games Military & Naval Affairs Dress Exercises Baths Marriages Divorces. Funerals Weights & Measures Coins Method of Writing Houses Gardens Agriculture Carriages Public Buildings &c. &c. Designed chiefly to illustrate the Latin classics. By Alexander Adam LL. D. Rector of the High School of Edinburgh BOOK INFO Published in 1791 by A. Strahan and T. Cadell in London. First edition. Bound in near contemporary 1/2 fine calf over finely woven cloth. Spine with gilt ruled compartments separated by raised bands; gilt-lettered spine label in compartment two. All edges marbled. Duodecimo 12mo 6 3/4" x 4 3/8". Collated and complete: xiii 1 594 2 pp. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Alexander Adam June 1741 – December 1809 was a Scottish teacher and writer on Roman antiquities. His popularity and his success as a teacher are strikingly illustrated by the great increase in the number of his pupils many of whom subsequently became distinguished men among them being Walter Scott Lord Brougham and Francis Jeffrey. Roman Antiquities is his best work which passed through a large number of editions and received the unusual compliment of a German translation. CONDITION REPORT The book is in Very Good antiquarian condition. Complete. Refreshed endpapers. Exterior and binding: Firmly bound with joint ends starting to crack. Slight loss of leather at head of spine. Rubbed edges wear and bumping to corners. Spine sunned dry and cracking a bit. Top edge darkened per usual. Interior: VG. Pages are mostly clean bright and lightly toned with some slightly darker toning in a few sections an infrequent spot of foxing on occasion or light sign of handling. The endpapers and blanks are a little toned and grubby and there are a previous owner's bookplate and a couple of inked previous owners' names. One leaf with some slight insect nibbling to fore-edge not affecting text. All in all a lovely collectible copy of an exceedingly rare first edition of an influential work on antiquarian Roman history and culture by a favorite teacher of Sir Walter Scott. . A. Strahan, and T. Cadell unknown

Ironwolf Rare Books · États-Unis1 375,00 $US≈ 1 163,39 €

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