Antiquariatsmesse Stuttgart 2021 - Katalog

Linnaean edition of the illustrated catalogue of
Sherard’s great botanical garden
Judgement at Nuremberg:
the greatest trial in history
[International Military Tribunal]. [War-crime
trials. Nurnberg, Germany, 20 November 1945].
[Germany], 1945. 4to. Mimeograph typescript text
and full-page plan. € 7500,–
A rare survival: a programme for what Judge Norman
Birkett, who presided throughout, called the „greatest
trial in history“. It was probably handed out to those in
attendance, distinguished visitors and members of the
press. The trial ran from 20 November 1945 to 1 October
1946. This first trial saw the 21 most prominent
members of the Nazi party prosecuted, which included
Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop
and, among others, Albert Speer. A brief note
listing their roles in the Nazi Party is given for each
man. The defendants were charged with conspiring
against peace; planning, initiating and waging wars of
aggression; participating in war crimes; and committing
crimes against humanity. – The first page of the
document is a floor plan of the court room, naming
each of the eight judges: Lawrence, Volchkow, Nikitchenko,
Birkett, Biddle, Parker, De Vabres and Falco.
Defendants were also given specific seating in order of
seniority. The British, American, French, and Russian
prosecutors were allotted tables, as were defence counsels
and distinguished visitors. A note at the end of the
document states that all „information and conversation
in the Court Room is transmitted by means of earphones“
and was available in the language of the speaker as
well as English, Russian, French and German. – OCLC
gives a collation of 8 leaves, but states that the floor plan
is duplicated. Indeed, the University of Michigan Law
library confirms our collation of 7 leaves. In the present
copy, the balcony is indicated in ink on the floorplan.
OCLC locates merely five copies at the US Holocaust
museum, University of South Florida, Michigan Law
Library, Oberlin College, and BL; Jisc adds LSE. – A
few traces of folds and an old paperclip impression,
altogether in very good condition. – [2], 5 numbered
loose leaves including title-page. OCLC 19827329. –
Siehe Abbildung.
Dillenius, Johann Jakob. Horti Elthamensis plantarum
rariorum icones et nomina. Leiden, Cornelis
Haak, 1774. 2 volumes bound as 1. Folio. With 325
engraved plates, numbered 1–147, [1], 148–324. 4
plates misbound: 6/7 and 273/274. Contemporary
boards. Preserved in a professionally handmade box,
made for this book. € 12 000,–
Second expanded Linnaean edition of „one of the most
important of pre-Linnaean works“ (Hunt): Dillen’s
description of plants in the great botanical garden in
Eltham (London) of James Sherard, „one of the most
richly stocked gardens in the world“. – To this second
edition the Linnaean binomal names are added on
the preliminary leaves and in the present copy a contemporary
hand has written these names in ink under
each of the plates. The first edition, printed in London
1732 is extremely rare, only 145 copies of the plates
and 500 of the original text were printed. The present
second Leiden edition is praised for its very fine plates
of succulents. – „Dillen’s work was highly respected
by Linnaeus … His Hortus Elthamensis (first edition
1732) may have served as a prototype for the Hortus
Cliffortianus (1737)“ (Stafleu, Linnaeus). The plates by
Dillen were sufficiently accurate to be of considerable
service to Linnaeus. In a gesture of appreciation Linnaeus
named a genus of trees Dillenia. Dillen offered
Linneaus his position as professor of botany at the
University of Oxford, but he declined. – With many
handwritten notes at the foot of the pages. With a small
brown stain at the foot. Binding slightly rubbed and
soiled but completely intact and firm. Overall in good
condition and wholly untrimmed, giving very large
margins. – [12] pp. Dunthorne 94; Hunt 637; Nissen,
BBI 492; Pritzel 2285; Stafleu, Linnaeus, p. 199; Stafleu
& Cowan 1471. – Siehe Abbildung.
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