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and thus forms part of the history of the science’ (Guillaumin, Avertissement
des editeurs in Oeuvres diverses, 1848).
Goldsmiths’–Kress 17874.24; INED 4109; Monglond V, 108; Negley 1002; not
in Einaudi; RLIN lists copies at Yale, Columbia, and the University of
Pennsylvannia.
Popular Beliefs
275 SCHMIDT, Johann Georg. Die gestriegelte Rockenphilosophia,
oder AuVrichtige Untersuchung derer von vielen
super-klugen Weibern hochgehaltenen Aberglauben. Chemnitz,
Conrad Stössel, 1706 [–1707]. £950
Four parts in one volume, part 1–2 and 3–4 paginated continuously,
8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. xiv, 381, 19 contents; 425, 7 contents;
title printed in red and black; decorative initials; some browning
throughout, slim worm trace to fore-margin of pp. 381–385;
contemporary full vellum.
First edition thus, of this entertaining and wildly varied set of superstitions
and popular beliefs, put about by old women – the proverbial ‘old wives’
tales’. In four sets of one hundred sections all manner of superstitions, legends,
cures, charms and curses prevalent in Germany at the time are described.
They cover a wide range of topics, including some of medical
interest, concentrating on love, courtship and marriage, pregnancy and
abortion, how to catch a husband and how to manage a household. Many
of the ‘superstitions’ here described were later collected in Jakob Grimm’s
inXuential ‘Deutsche Mythologie’ (1835). They constitute an important
source book for popular practices of the time.
Faber du Faur 1564; see Jantz 2238 for later edition; Holzmann-Bohatta 12457;
uncommon, RLIN and OCLC locate copies at Stanford, Brown University and
Yale only.
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276 SCHOEBEL, Charles. Analogies constitutives de la Langue
Allemande avec le Grec et le Latin expliquées par le Samskrit. Paris,
l’Imprimerie Royale, 1845. £75
Tall 8vo, pp. [iv], xxvii, [1] abbreviations, 184, [2] errata; numerous
tables in the text; contemporary half roan over marbled boards, spine
decorated and lettered in gilt, extremities a little rubbed.
First edition of this comprehensive word list of the analogies between the
German language and Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit, part of the German midcentury
emphasis on the study of the history of languages. In painstaking
detail, Schöbel gives German terms, their Sanskrit equivalents, the Germanic
root, and similar Latin and Greek terms, together with their translation
into French, explaining both its direct and Wgurative meaning.
Bonaparte 9554.
277 SCHOPENHAUER, Arthur. Ueber die vierfache Wurzel des
Satzes vom zureichenden Grunde. Rudolfstadt, 1813.
[bound with:] SCHOPENHAUER, Arthur. Ueber das Sehen und
die Farben, Leipzig, Hartknoch, 1816. £4500
Two works in one volume, 8vo, pp. [ii], 148; 88. some light spotting,
second work lightly browned, due to paper stock; some annotations
and manuscript underlinings in pencil and ink; mid-nineteenth century
cloth-backed marbled boards, spine ruled and lettered in gilt.
First editions of Schopenhauer’s rare Wrst two publications: his rare doctoral
dissertation, translated as ‘On the Fourfold root of the Principle of
SuYcient Reason’, which is important for the understanding of his later
more mature works, and his work on colour, instigated by his encounter
with Goethe.
Schopenhauer (1788–1860), the German philosopher of pessimism, is
best known for his later ‘Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung’.
Hübscher 1, Griesebach 11; Hübscher 6; Griesebach, p. 11.