Herman H.J. Lynge & Søn will be attending the the First International Antiquarian Book Fair in Budapest, held at the Pesti Vigadó on Friday September 22nd to Sunday September 24th. We will yet again be exhibiting a fine selection of rare books within our main areas, click here to see the list as a PDF, below are a few highlights. Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions, need photos or would like a full description of any of the listed items. All books will be on display in booth 1.

INTRODUCING THE ATOMIC THEORY OF SPACE TO THE MODERN WORLD BRUNO NOLANI, JORDANUS. De Triplici Minimo et Mensura ad Trium Speculatiuarum...
Francfurt, Iohannes Wechel & Petrus Fischer, 1591.1591. The extremely scarce first edition of one of Bruno's main works, one of his key cosmological texts, being the earliest and most important of his three long Latin poems with prose accompaniment and thus one of the most influential works of the Renaissance. It is in this foundational work that "the greatest thinker in Italy during the sixteenth century" (Paterson) defines the triple minimum, which consists in the monad (being the basis of metaphysics), the mathematical point (being the basis of geometry), and the atom (being the basis of physics) and thus presents the basis for his theory of nature and the universe. It contains much of the author's ripest thought and his first description of his seminal doctrine of the minimum, by which he was the first Western thinker (since Plato) to introduce the atomistic theory of space. The work was extremely influential and directly influenced Leibnitz, Kepler, Spinoza, Descartes, Kircher, and many others. . HUF 21,000,000 / EUR 67,000

THE BEGINNING OF A NEW ERA FOR PLASTIC SURGERY BARONIO, GUISEPPE. Degli innesti animali.
Milano, Genio, 1804.1804. A magnificent copy, in completely original condition, of the rare first edition (printed in a small number only) of this milestone in the history of plastic surgery, Baronio's immensely significant masterpiece, which constitutes the first example of purely scientific research in the history of plastic surgery. Furthermore, it is in this work that the possibility of skin transfer (grafting) is demonstrated for the first time, marking the beginning of a new era for plastic surgery. "The basic principle of free transplantation . . . constituted, when fully understood and applied, the greatest single advance [in plastic surgery] of the nineteenth century." HUF 3,500,000 / EUR 11,500

EINSTEIN AT WORK WITH "THE THIRD STAGE OF RELATIVITY", THE UNIFIED FIELD THEORY. EINSTEIN, ALBERT. .
Autograph letter signed "A. Einstein", (Berlin), December 10, 1928. An unpublished and unrecorded letter of seminal importance to the understanding of Einstein's path towards his great final theory, perhaps the most ambitious and complex achievement of the 20th century, namely the all-embracing formula that would unite all forces of nature, showing them as merely different manifestations of a single, universal force and as such disclosing the secret laws of nature - the great UNIFIED FIELD THEORY, marrying the electromagnetic and gravitational fields. HUF 35,500,000 / EUR 114,000