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Below are short-title descriptions of the books that we are showing at the Antiquariats-Messe Zürich 2022. Please visit us at The Kunsthaus Zürich, where we will be exhibiting 40 rare and exciting books within our main fields of interest. For a full view of our entire stock, please visit our web-site, www.lynge.com, where you will be able to search and browse more than 25,000 books.

THE FIRST TRANSLATION OF MONTAIGNE'S ESSAYS MONTAIGNE, MICHEL de.
Discorsi, morali, politici, et militari. 1590. The very scarce first edition of the first translation into any language of any part of Montaigne's Essays, namely Naselli's monumental first Italian translation, which came to pave the way for later translations of the work, among them Florio's first English from 1603.
CHF 23,500

INAUGURATING THE DISCOVERY OF THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES WALLACE, ALFRED RUSSEL.
1855. Exceedingly scarce first printing of Wallace's very first publication on the theory of evolution, predating any publication on the subject by Darwin. This milestone paper in the history of the theory of evolution - "A stunning scientific debut" - formulates what is now known as the "Sarawak Law", which is in essence half of the theory of evolution by natural selection, which Wallace would later (1858) so famously publicize together with Darwin. CHF 67,000

ONE OF THE FINEST OF ALL ANATOMICAL TREATISES ESTIENNE, CHARLES.
De dissectione partium corporis humani. 1545. The very rare first edition of one of the most important works in the history of medicine, being the first published work to include illustrations of the whole external venous, arterial, and nervous systems, and the most magnificent anatomical atlas of the sixteenth century, next to Vesalius' "Fabrica". Although the work was published two years after Vesalius', the anatomy itself is pre-Vesalian and antedates the "Fabrica" by some years in actual composition. "This magnificent folio volume is one of the finest of all anatomical treatises." (Heirs of Hippocrates). "One of the finest woodcut books of the French Renaissance, in which science and art are ideally merged." (Schreiber).
CHF 51,000

A NEW VIEW OF THE UNIVERSE EINSTEIN, ALBERT.
Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper (+) Über einem die Erzeugung und Verwandlung des Lichtes... (+) Über die von der molekularkinetischen Theorie der Wärme... 1905. The first edition, journal issues, of Einstein's three landmark papers which laid the foundation for a new view of the universe, shattering the Newtonian view which had ruled for over two centuries. "Of all the scientific journals in the world, the single most sought-after collector's item by far is the Annalen der Physik, volume XVII, for 1905, [from which the 3 present papers are extracted] for... Einstein published not one, but three papers in the journal, causing 1905 to be dubbed the annus mirabilis of science" (Watson, The Modern Mind). The three papers include the epochal first paper on special relativity, the Nobel prize award winning paper on the photon and the photoelectric effect, and the demonstration of the atom's existence through Brownian motion - Max Born did not exaggerate when he called Volume 17 of Annalen der Physik "one of the most remarkable volumes in the whole scientific literature." CHF 20,000

Antiquariats-Messe Zürich 2022 Short-title List