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Nouvelle collection de costumes suisses représentés en quarante planches d’après les dessins de M. F.N. Koenig.
A Paris, Chez Lefuel, libraire, rue Saint-Jacques, n° 54, s.d. (vers 1828), pt. in-8vo, (11.5x8 cm), 91 p. (+1) + 40 planches finement coloriées à la main, cartonnage original avec décoration en couleurs, tranches dorées, étui identique. Un charmant exemplaire en bel état.
Avec de ravissantes planches de costumes gravées et coloriées d’après les dessins de F.N. Koenig (1765-1832). C’est la première édition française de la ‘Collection nouvelle’ avec 40 planches gravées d’après l’édition de 1803 à Zürich. Il y a 40 chapitres à travers les cantons et régions suisses, avec une planche coloriée par chapitre, et à la fin, 3 petits chapitres sur les ‘Alpes’, ‘Pont-du-Diable’ et les ‘Glaciers’.Koenig was a well-known and respected artist of Switzerland, who started his independent career in 1768 with engraved Swiss costume plates. Fine copy in a very nice contemporary decorated paper binding. Lonchamp L’Estampe et le livre à gravures 418; Lonchamp 1701; Colas 1647; Thieme Becker XXI, p. 160 (Koenig). (Schweiz. Nationalbibl. avec date ca. 1805. (?) - Worldcat avec date 1828). Image disp.
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"KOENIG (KÖNIG), SAMUEL. - GIVING RISE TO ONE OF THE UGLIEST SCIENTIFIC CONTROVERSIES.
Reference : 46906
(1751)
De universali Principio aequilibrii & motus, in Vi viva reperto, deque nexu inter Vim Vivam & Sctionem, utriusque Minimo, Dissertatio. (+) ...continuata & finita. (2 Parts).
Leipzig, Gleditsch & Lanckis, 1751. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Nova Acta Eruditorum, Anno MDCCLI"", March- Issue, Pars I-II. Entire issue in 2 parts offered. With titlepage to the volume 1751. Pp. 97-192. Koenig's paper: pp. 125-135 a. pp. 162-176. With 2 engraved plates. Titlepage with 2 stamps and a bit soiled. Leaves as usual a bit browned.
First printing of this important paper in which Koenig set forth his ""Law of least Action"". The law states that the kinetic energy of a system of mass points is equal to the sum of the kinetic energy of the motion of the system relative to the center of gravity and of the kinetic energy of the total mass of the system considered as a whole, which moves as the center of gravity of the system.""While still in Franeker, Koenig wrote the draft of his important essay on the principle of least action, which was directed against Maupertuis. The controversy touched off by this work, which was published in March 1751, resulted in perhaps the ugliest of all the famous scientific disputes. Its principal figures were Koenig, Maupertuis, Euler, Frederick II, and Voltaire" and, as is well known, it left an unseemly stain on Euler’s otherwise untarnished escutcheon. The quarrel occupied Koenig’s last years almost completely" moreover, he had been ill for several years before it started. Koenig emerged the moral victor from this affair, in which all the great scientists of Europe—except Maupertuis and Euler—were on his side. The later finding of Kabitz2 testifies to Koenig’s irreproachable character.""(DSB).
Fribourg. Berger des Alpes de Gruyère.
vers 1820, 18.5 x 12.5 cm, Lithographie originale sur fond grise, coloriée à la main, papier avec faux-plis au coin, sous passepartout dans un encadrement doré / Übereckvergoldeter Rahmen (36 x 30.5 cm).
Daniëls Fribourg ses costumes, fig. 25 p. 76 Image disp.
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Fribourg. Berger des Alpes de Gruyère.
vers 1820, Lichtmass: 22x17 cm, Lithographie originale sur fond grise, coloriée à la main, papier avec faux-plis au coin, une feuille sous passepartout . (sans cadre).
Daniëls Fribourg ses costumes, fig. 25 p. 76 Image disp.
(SLACES, NVVA)
Phone number : 41 (0)26 3223808
