Auction 159

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Saturday, 25 April 2026 at 10:00 am

Lot 1001 Leonhard Euler. Lettres à une princesse …

Lettres à une princesse d'Allemagne. 3 Teile in 2 Bänden. Mit 12 gefalteten Tafeln und zahlreichen, teils blattfüllenden Textabbildungen im Holzschnitt. St. Petersburg, 1768-1772. XII, 314 S., XIV S., 340 S. u. XIV S., 1 Bl., 404 S. 8°. Kalbsldr. d. Zt. auf 5 erhabenen Bünden, RTit. auf goldgepr. Maroquin-Etiketten im zweiten Fach, goldgepr. Nummerierung im dritten Fach, die anderen Fächer mit reicher floraler Goldpräg., die Decken mit blindgepr. Fileten, Vorsätze aus gezogenem Marmorpapier im Schneckenmarmordeckor und zwei seidene Lesezeichenbändchen (Bd. 1 mit kl. Fehlstelle am Fußsteg, Rücken beschabt, die Goldfarbe teils abgeblättert, Schnitt etw. fleckig).

Physik

Naturwissenschaften – Erste Ausgabe der einflußreichsten populärwissenschaftlichen Darstellung der Wissenschaften des 18. Jh. - Houzeau & Lancaster 8897. - PMM 196 (Anm.) - DSB IV, 471. - Honeyman 1074. - Poggendorff I, 690. - Ziegenfuß I, 304. - An die Nichte Friedrichs des Großen, die Tochter des Markgrafen von Brandenburg-Schwedt, gerichtete Lehrbriefe des Schweizer Gelehrten Leonard Euler (1707-83). Vorliegende Briefe "untersuchten die komplexen und sich wandelnden Naturphilosophien der Aufklärung - die cartesianische, newtonsche, leibnizianische und wolffianische - kritisch und tiefgründiger als andere Werke und präsentierten sie in einer für das gebildete europäische Lesepublikum verständlichen Sprache." (R. Calinger. Leonhard Euler. Mathematisches Genie in der Aufklärung, 2015). - Die Titelbl. verso mit (vermutlich russischem) privaten Besitzerstempel in roter Tinte (Eule über Schild) d. 19. Jh. - Vereinzelt mit kl. Stockfleckchen, sonst innen ausnehmend gut erhaltenes Exemplar des bedeutenden Werks.

Natural Sciences – Physics. - First edition of the most influential work of popular science writing of the 18th century, strikingly illustrated with 12 folding wood-cut plates and numerous, partly page-filling wood-cut text illustrations. Bound in contemporary calf with rich gold-tooling at spine. - For references see above. - Letters of instruction from the Swiss scholar Leonard Euler (1707-83) addressed to the niece of Frederick the Great, the daughter of the Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt. These letters "examined the complex and evolving natural philosophies of the Enlightenment-Cartesian, Newtonian, Leibnizian, and Wolffian-more critically and profoundly than other works and presented them in language understandable to the educated European reading public." (R. Calinger. Leonhard Euler. Mathematical Genius in the Enlightenment, 2015, translated). - Title pages verso with (presumably Russian) private owner's stamp in red ink (owl over shield) of the 19th century. - A few small foxing spots, otherwise inside an exceptionally well-preserved copy of this important work.

Startprice: 5000 €
Estimate: 7000 €

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