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Schöne und seltene Bücher des 15. bis 20. Jahrhunderts
Der achtzehnte Brumaire des Louis Bonaparte, Marx’s
essay on the French coup of 1851, originally appeared
in 1852 in the monthly magazine Die Revolution, published
in New York. – Draper ST/M 51; Rubel 567.
Presentation copy to her fellow Nightingale
School instructor
Marx’s brilliant critique of contemporary European
politics
Marx, Karl. Herr Vogt. London: A. Petsch & Co,
deutsche Buchhandlung, 1860. Octavo (212 × 138
mm). Contemporary black cloth-backed blue marbled
paper boards, rebacked preserving the original
spine, edges sprinkled black. Extremities worn,
corners bruised, contents browned; a very good
copy. € 13 900,–
First edition of Marx’s scathing retort to Karl Vogt’s
attack, a brilliant critique of contemporary European
politics, and the work which Marx took the best part of
a year away from the writing of Capital to complete. It
is bound first in a volume of two works, the other being
the second edition of Marx’s Der achtzehnte Brumaire
des Louis Bonaparte (Hamburg: Otto Meissner, 1869).
Referred to as Marx’s ‚forgotten work‘, Herr Vogt is
an answer to the slanders against himself, Engels, and
their supporters that appeared in Vogt’s 1859 pamphlet,
Mein Prozess gegen die Allgemeine Zeitung. Vogt,
falsely accused of being a paid agent of Napoleon III
by an obscure German refugee newspaper in London,
believed the insult to have originated with Marx. Mein
Prozess fastidiously chronicled the libel lawsuit against
the newspaper and painted Marx as the duplicitous
ringleader. Outraged at the attack, Marx replied the
following year, in which he denounced and ridiculed
Vogt for intrigue and double-dealing.
Nightingale, Florence. Notes on Nursing: what it
is, and what it is not. New edition, revised and enlarged.
London: Harrison, bookseller to the Queen,
1860. Octavo. Original charcoal bead-cloth, rebacked,
front cover lettered in gilt, blind-stamped
panel of double fillet with scrollwork corner decoration
to covers, new pale yellow endpapers. Table
at rear. Wellcome Library deaccession stamp to title
page verso, a few instances of marginalia. Wear to
extremities, fore edge of half-title neatly reinforced,
contents crisp and generally clean with the occasional
faint spot, some shallow chips to fore edge of
A8 and a couple of small closed tears to leaf edges,
original rear free endpaper preserved at rear, on
verso of which is penned a short biography of Croft.
Overall a very good copy. € 11 100,–
Second edition, a superb presentation copy, inscribed
by the author on the half-title to her fellow instructor
at the Nightingale School: „Offered to John Croft Esq.
with Florence Nightingale’s sincerest joy at finding
herself his fellow-worker in the Nurse-training business
London 1873“. Designated by Nightingale the
Library Standard edition, this is the „fullest and most
most scientifically oriented“ version of this landmark
text on nursing (Skretkowicz, p. xvii).
A senior surgeon at St Thomas’s Hospital, John Croft
(1833–1905) was introduced to the Nightingale School
in early 1873, at the recommendation of Nightingale.
The aforementioned inscription strongly suggests that
Nightingale presented her new colleague with this copy
of Notes on Nursing on his appointment, choosing the
most pertinent and complete edition for his professional
use. It was a hugely significant text for Croft, and
his lectures borrowed extensively from its contents.
Intended for use as a reference work by professionals,
the Library Standard edition was published in July 1860
in a print run of 2,000 copies. – Cushing N100; Osler
7739. Not in Garrison & Morton or Hook & Norman;
mentioned in Grolier, One Hundred Books Famous in
Medicine, 71 („an enlarged and corrected version was
published in mid-1860“) and Heirs of Hippocrates 1008
104