‎Archeologie‎

‎Études et Travaux VII. Travaux du Centre d'Archéologie Méditerranéenne de l'Académie Polonaise des Sciences. Tome 14.‎

‎Warszawa, PWN-Éditions Scientifiques de Pologne, 1973. M. zahlr. Abb. 294 S. OKart. Umschl. angeschmutzt u. bestoßen.‎

‎Enth. u.a.: Lyczkowska, K., On Mesopotamina Cylinder Seal; Mlynarczyk, J., Egyptian Types of Terracotta Lamps from Tell Atrib; Kolodziejczyk, K., Remarks Concerning Fragments of Christian Pottery from Faras; Dzierzykray-Rogalski, Bones of Newborn Infants from the Church of the Citadel at Faras (Sudan).‎

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‎Études et Travaux XI. Travaux du Centre d'Archéologie Méditerranéenne de l'Académie Polonaise des Sciences. Tome 22.‎

‎Warszawa, PWN-Éditions Scientifiques de Pologne, 1979. M. zahlr. Abb. u. Ktn.-Skizzen. OKart. Einbd. etwas bestoßen u. angeschmutzt.‎

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‎"AMSCHLER, J. WOLFG.‎

‎Tierreste der Ausgrabungen von dem ""Grossen Königshügel"" Shah Tepi, in Nord-Iran. Stockholm, 1939.‎

‎4to. 129 pp., 7 tables and 26 plates.‎

‎(Reports f. the Scient. Exp. to the North=Western Provinces of China...Sven Hedin).‎

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‎"BARRÉ, M.L.‎

‎Herculanum et Pompéi. recueil Général des Peintures Bronzes, Mosaiques, Etc. Découverts jusquá ce Jour, et reproduits d'apres le Antichita di Ercolano, il Museo Borbonico, et tous les Ouvrages analogues. ASugmenté de Sujets inédits, Gravés au Trait ...‎

‎Paris, Firmin Didot Freres, 1839-40. Royal8vo. 7 cont. hcalf, richly gilt backs. A few browspots, mainly marginal. With 731 engraved plates, all with descriptive text.‎

‎First edition of one of the first works depicting the treasures from Herculanum and Pompeji. The last volume as an appendix: ""Musee Secrets"" is nor present. - Brunet I:666.‎

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‎"BRUZELIUS, NILS GUSTAV. - DEDIKATIONSEKSEMPLAR.‎

‎Beskrifning öfver Fornsakar funna i Skåne, jemte indledande anmärkningar öfver Svenska Antiqviteter i allmännlighet.‎

‎Lund, Berlingska, 1850. Orig. bogtrykte omslag, ubeskåret. Bagomslaget løst, rygpapiret delvist bortkommet, lidt kantflosset. (4),54,(2) pp. samt 3 litograferede plancher. Indvendigt er siderne og plancherne noget brunede. Omslaget med brunpletter.Med dedikation på foromslaget ""Studeranden Herr Olaf Pehrsson/ Vänskapsfult/ af Författaren.""‎

‎"BRØNDSTED, P. O.‎

‎Egenhændigt brev til ""Min hulde Syster"" fra P. O. Brøndsted. - [ORIGINALT HÅNDSKREVET OG SIGNERET BREV FRA P. O. BRØNDSTED.]‎

‎Kiøbenhavn den 17de Septbr 1841. 2 sider 8vo. ""Min hulde Syster, / Du kjender mit Sindelag, elske / -ligste Veninde, og jeg behøver / neppe at yttre for dig at min kjærligste Tanke og mit hjerte / -ligste Ønske ere hos Dig i morgen / paa det venlige Iselingen. / Gud velsigne og bevare Dig frem / -deles i Sundhed, Glæde og Til / -fredshed! / Jeg sendte en ganske liden Ubetydelighed med vor kjære Hjem / -komne til Erindring om Dagens / Festlighed - tag til takke med den / ringe lille Gave, jeg vidste / ikke i Hast, da Marie skulde / bort, nogen ret passende. / At den kommer fra en / kjærlig og trofast Ven, det / er jo dog Hovedsagen. / Din og alle dine Kjæres / tro hengivne Ven og Broder / Brøndsted. / Kiøbenhavn / den 17de Septbr / 1841.""‎

‎"CHAMPOLLION LE JEUNE, (JEAN FRANCOIS).‎

‎Lettre a M. Dacier, relative a l'alpabet des hiéroglyphes phonétiques, employés par les égyptiens pour inscrire sur leurs monuments les titres, les noms et les surnoms des souveraines grecs et romains. - [""I'VE GOT IT"" - CRACKING THE CODE OF THE HIEROGLYPHS]‎

‎Paris, Firmin Didot, 1822. 8vo. Uncut in the original printed wrappers. Front wrapper slightly soiled and a bit of light dampstaining throughout. Upper corner worn. Six leaves with contemporary neat annotations, scholarly notes and drawings have been inserted at the front and the back - one double-leaf in front of the title-page (with one page of annotations with references to other works by Champollion), two leaves between plates III and IV (with two and a half pages of Greek-ancient Greek-Latin correspondence alphabet) and three leaves at the end, before the final blank (with five pages of an alphabet of the first Egyptian letters - very neatly drawn - and an alphabet-correspondence at the end). A very charming and interesting copy in the exceedingly rare original wrappers. Housed in a half morocco slipcase with gilt lettering to spine. (4), 52 pp. + 4 folded plates + 1 blank leaf.‎

‎The scarce first edition, in the even scarcer original printed wrappers, of Champollion's milestone work, which announced for the first time the deciphering of the Rosetta Stone, provided the key to reading Egyptian hieroglyphs, and gave birth to the entire field of modern Egyptology. This seminal work arguably constitutes the single most important philological work ever written. ""[...] in the actual state of Egyptian studies, when the monuments stream out from all sides and are collected by the rulers as by amateurs, and when also the scientists of all countries are eager to engage in serious research of their subject matter and are eager to penetrate deeply into the knowledge of these written monuments which must be used to explain all the others, I do not think I should wait till another time to bring to the scientists' attention and under your honourable auspices a short but important series of new developments, which naturally belong to my Memory on HIEROGLYPHIC writing, and which will doubtlessly save you the trouble that I have taken to establish what may be very serious errors about the different periods in the history of Egyptian art and the general administration of Egypt: for this is about the series of hieroglyphs that, making an exception to the general nature of the signs of this writing, have been equipped with the ability to EXPRESS THE SOUNDS of the words, and which are used in the inscriptions of the public monuments of Egypt, the TITLES, the NAMES, and the EPONYMS OF THE GREEK OR ROMAN SOVEREIGNS, who rule Egypt one after the other. Many certainties in the history of this celebrated piece of land must arise from this new result of my research, to which I have been led quite naturally."" (pp. 2-3) (*) says Champollion on the opening pages of the present letter to Mr. Dacier. And thus was laid the foundation of modern Egyptology. Jean Francois Champollion (1790-1832), known as the father of Egyptology, was by no means exaggerating when he stated the above - his letter to Mr. Dacier upon his new discoveries and the decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphs did change the study of Egypt and Egyptology more profoundly than any work before or after. Ever since the publication of the present work, Champollion has been credited with being the first to correctly and fully decipher the inscription on the famous Rosetta Stone, translating it, and breaking the mystery of the ancient hieroglyphic script"" it is in the present work that this milestone event in the history of modern man is announced first time, and it is due to this discovery that he is accepted as the founder of Scientific Egyptology. The Rosetta Stone, which dates back to 196 B.C was found in 1799 by French Troops and was immediately brought to England, where it has been ever since. The stone was (and is) of the utmost importance to the understanding of the Egyptian language, the principles of which were totally unknown up until this point. Because the hieroglyphic inscription on the stone is accompanied by a Greek and a Demotic one with the same contents (the commemoration of Ptolemy V's accession to the Egyptian throne), Champollion was able to crack the code of the hieroglyphs and to read a language that had not been read for far more than a millennium. Other very skilled linguists had worked on the decipherment of the hieroglyphic inscription simultaneously with Champollion, but they had all given up by the time that Champollion finally had his first true breakthrough. It came in 1822, when he successfully deciphered two Egyptian names, Ramses and Thutmos, written in hieroglyphic characters in temple cartouches. Champollion's discovery pointed to the fact that the Egyptian hieroglyphs functioned as an alphabet, a phonetic language and a system of symbols that could stand for words or concepts. ""And if the resembling signs of the two names render THE SAME SOUNDS on both cartouches, it is due to their ENTIRELY PHONETIC character."" (p. 7). (**) He succeeded in showing that the Egyptian hieroglyphic writing system was a combination of phonetic and ideographic signs, and using his new discovery as a foundation, Champollion next turned his attention to common nouns, and deciphered the phrase ""birthday celebrations"" from the Rosetta Stone.""It is a complex system, writing figurative, symbolic, and phonetic all at once, in the same text, the same phrase, I would almost say in the same word"" says Champollion about the hieroglyphs, in the present work, after having established their meaning. He had finally cracked the code and was sure of it. He was so excited by this monumental discovery that he immediately ran to his brother's house, into his office, shouting the famous words ""Je tiens l'affaire!"", i.e. ""I've got it!"". It is said that he then fainted and spent the next five days in bed recovering. Shortly after his recovery, he began writing the letter for Mr. Dacier, outlining the discovery that laid the foundation for deciphering hieroglyphs, which was published later the same year, and a condensed version of which he presented as a speech at the Academie des Inscriptions. When he presented the speech, Thomas Young, who had given up breaking the code four years earlier, was also in the audience.In 1824, Champollion published a more comprehensive explanation of the hieroglyphic system, his famous ""Précis du Système Hieroglyphiques des Anciens Egyptiens"".Champollion was an extraordinary philologist, who, by the age of sixteen, besides Greek and Latin, mastered six ancient Middle Eastern languages, among these Coptic, the knowledge of which, unlike that of Egyptian, was never lost. As the first, Champollion realized the connection between the Coptic and the Egyptian language, and was able to identify many of the Egyptian words on the Rosetta Stone, as he could read them with their Coptic equivalents. He was the first to believe that both Demotic and Hieratic represented symbols, and not sounds as earlier presumed. After that he quickly realized that each single hieroglyph could represent a sign, and he began compiling a hieroglyphic alphabet. When publishing his letter to Mr. Dacier, he presented the fact that the hieroglyphs represented sounds as well as concepts, according to context. Champollion is thus the constructor of our present code of the hieroglyphic alphabet. ""Further study enabled him to discover the values of a number of syllabic hieroglyphic signs, and to recognize the use of hieroglyphs as determinatives. In cases where the Greek text supplied him with the meaning of hieroglyphs of which he did not know the phonetic values, his knowledge of Coptic enabled him to suggest values which he found subsequently to be substantially correct. Further reference to determinatives and the importance of parallel passages and texts will be made later on in his work. Between 1822-24 CHAMPOLLION worked incessantly, and was enabled to modify much of his earlier views, and to develop his Alphabet, -and he evolved some rudimentary principles of Egyptian Grammar..."" (Wallis Budge, The Rosetta Stone in the British Museum, pp. 224-25). ""We have only been able to locate 4 auction records of the work within the last 40 years (ABPC & JAP), none of them in original wrappers.________________________________________________________________________________ORIGINAL FRENCH TEXT OF THE QUOTATIONS ABOVE (WHICH ARE IN OWN TRANSLATION):(*) ""[...] dans l'etat actual des études égyptiennes, lors-que de toutes parts les monuments affluent et sont recueilles par les souverains comme par les amateurs, lorsqu'aussi, et a leur sujet, les savants de tous les pays s'empressent de se livrer à de laborieuses recherches, et s'efforcent de pénétrer intimement dans la connaissance de ces monuments écrits qui doivent servir à expliquer tous les autres, je ne crois pas devoir remettre à un autre temps d'offrir à ces savants et sous vos honorables auspices, une courte mais importante série de faits nouveaux, qui appartient naturellement à mon Mémoire sur l'écriture HIÉROGLYPHIQUE, et qui leur épargnera sans doute la peine que j'ai prise pour l'établir, peut-être aussi de graves erreurs sur les époques diverses de l'histoire des arts et de l'administration générale de l'Égypte: car il s'agit de la série ges HIÉROGLYPHES qui, faisant exception à la nature générale des signes de cette écriture, étaient doués de la faculté d'EXPRIMER LES SONS des mots, et ont servi à inscrire sur les monuments publics de l'Égypte, les TITRES, les NOMS, et les SURNOMS DES SOUVERAINES GRECS OU ROMAINS qui la gouvernèrent successivement. Bien des certitudes pour l'histoire de cette contrée célèbre doivent naître de ce nouveau résultat des mes recherches, auquel j'ai été conduit très-naturellement."" (pp. 2-3).(**) ""et si les signes semblables dans ces deaux noms exprimaient dans l'un et l'autre cartouche LES MÊMES SONS, ils devaient constater leur nature ENTIÈREMENT PHONÉTIQUE."" (p.7).‎

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‎"DUPONT, M. E. - PRESENTATION COPY.‎

‎L' Homme pendant les Ages de la Pierre dans les environs de Dinant-sur-Meuse. Deuxième édition avec 41 gravures, 4 planches & 1 tableau synoptique.‎

‎Bruxelles, Muquardt, 1872. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt and somewhat rubbed. Top of spine worn. Stamps on titlepage and htitle. (2),250 pp., textillustr., 4 tinted lithographed plates and 1 large table ""Table Synoptique"" With presentation inscription on halftitle ""A Monsieur Engelhardt, honneur de l'Auteur, E. Dupont"". Engelhardt was a well-known Danish archaeologist.‎

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‎"GUHL, E. & KONER, W.‎

‎The Life of the Greeks and Romans. Described from Antique Monuments. Translated from the third German Edition by F. Hueffer. With five hundred and forty-three Illustrations.‎

‎Ldn., Chatto and Windus, (w.y.) (ca.1900). Lex 8vo. (10), 620, 40 pp. Orig. decorated cloth. First 4 leaves loose. Blind-stamped library-stamp on title-page. Bound with the ""Chatto & Windus' List of Books. A bit loose.‎

‎"KELLER, FERDINAND - THE ""APPEARANCE"" OF PFAHLBAUTEN (THE STAKE BUILDINGS) IN SWITZERLAND.‎

‎Die keltischen Pfahlbauten in den Schweizerseen. (Erster-) Achter Bericht.‎

‎Zürich, Meyer und Zeller, (1854-) 1879. 4to. Contemporary halfcalf. Gilt spine, gilt letterinf. Fronthinge weakening. 1. Bericht (title without year): pp. (66-) 100 - 2.: pp. (110-) 155 - 3.: X,(73-) 116 - 4.: 34,(2) pp. - 5.: (4),(131-) 188 pp. - 6.: VIII,(245-) 320 pp. - 7.: (2),(4),69,(2),XII,(2) pp. - 8.: VIII,58 pp. and 85 lithographed plates, each with numerous illustr., 2 views (complete). Siebenter berich has 2 titlepages, the first: ""Résultat des Recherches exécutées dans les Lacs de la Suisse Occidentale depuis l'année 1866 decrit par V. Gross, F.-A. Forel et Edm. de Fellenberg"". The second: ""Pfahlbauten. Siebenter Bericht. Von Ferdinand Keller"". A few minor brownspots, internally clean.The work was published in ""Mittheilungen der antiquarischen Gesellschaft in Zürich"", Bde IX,,XII,,XIII,,XIV,.XV,,XIX, a. XX. The work has successively belong to three well-known Danish archaeologist: Georg Sarauw, Axel Steensberg and J. Troels-Smith with their names on front free endpaper.Troels-Smith is internatonally known as one of the pioneers in Pollen Analysis, especially with his work ""Pollenanalytische Untersuchungen zu einigen Schweizerischen Pfahlbauproblemen"" founded on his excavations on the ""Pfahlbauten"".‎

‎First edition of this pioneer work in Swiss archaeology, exposing in a long series of reports his finds in the Swiss lakes (the Swiss lake Dwellings), - describing the Swiss ""Urbevölkerung"" with their Stake Buildings and the rich finds around these in the Swiss lakes.‎

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‎"MESTORF, J.‎

‎Urnenfriedhöfe in Schleswig-Holstein. Hamburg, Meissner, 1886.‎

‎Lex8vo. Cont. hcalf. Orig. printed frontwrapper on which ""Gratis vom Verfasser"". XI,104 pp. 12 lithographed plates a. 1 coloured map.‎

‎"MOVIUS, HALLAM L. - PRESENTATION COPY.‎

‎An early Post-Glacial archeological Site at Coshendun, County Antrim.‎

‎Dublin, Hodges, Figgis, & Co., 1940. 4to. Orig. printed wrappers. Wrappers with some tears. Offprint from ""Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy"". Inscribed by the author on frontwrapper to the Danish archaeologist Therkel Mathiassen.‎

‎"MÜLLER, LUDVIG.‎

‎Det saakaldte Hagekors's Anvendelsen of Betydning i Oldtiden. (In ""Vidensk. Selsk. Skr."").‎

‎Kjøbenhavn, Bianco Luno, 1877. 4to. Bound in later half cloth. In ""Vidensk. Selsk. Skr."", 4te række. Title-page slightly soiling otherwise a nice and clean copy. 146 pp‎

Référence libraire : 62542

‎"NIEDERLE, L.‎

‎Zivot starych Slovanu. Zaklady kulturnich starozitnosti Slovanskych. Dilu I, Svazek 2.‎

‎Praze, 1913. Orig. hcloth. (6),399-897 pp. Richly illustrated, plates and textillustr.‎

‎(Volume 2 of "" Slovanske Starozitnosti, Oddil Kulturni "".)‎

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‎"NIEMEYER, HANS GEORG und HERMANFRID SCHUBART.‎

‎Toscanos: Die altpunische Faktorei an der Mündung des Rio de Velez. Lieferng 1: Grabungskampagne 1964.‎

‎Berlin, Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1969. Small folio. Orig. full cloth. Stamp on foot of titlepage. VII,124 pp., 38 plates (some in colour) and 16 ""Beilagen"".‎

‎(Madrider Forschungen, Band 6 - Deutsches Archáologisches Institut).‎

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‎"NYERUP, RASMUS.‎

‎Antiqvariske Optegnelser paa en Rejse til München 1821.‎

‎Kjøbenhavn, Schultz, 1822. Ubeskåret i nyere blankt omslag. Stempel på titelblad. 63 pp. Særtryk af ""Antiqvariske Annaler, 4de Bind).‎

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‎"PAESTUM (PESTO) - BAMONTE, GIUSEPPE.‎

‎Le Antichita Pestane del Canonico...Bamonte di Capaccio. Socio corrispondente della Reale Societá Agraria di Salerno.‎

‎Napoli, Biblioteca Analitica, 1819. 8vo. Cont.full cloth. Gilt. Spine ends slightly frayed, otherwise fine. (12),124 pp. and 1 large folded engraved plan of Pesto. With dedication on halftitle: ""A sua Excellence/ La Sign. Principessina Gli (?) Centola Dorea (?)/ l'Autore"". Printed on good paper. One quire browned.‎

‎"ROOSENS, H. & ALENUS-LECERF, J.‎

‎Sépultures mérovingiennes au ""Vieux cimitière"" D'Arlon.‎

‎Bruxelles, 1965. Small 4to. 188 pp., and 4 plates. Textillustrated.‎

‎Archaeologica Belgica, 88.‎

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‎"SCHMIDT, (FREDERIC SAMUEL de).‎

‎Recueil D'Antiquités trouvées a Avenches a Culm et en d'autre Lieux de la Suisse.‎

‎Bern, Abraham Wagner, Fils, 1760. 4to. Contemp. blank boards. A fw scratches to covers and a small inkspot on frontcover. (1),118,(2),(1) pp. and 35, partly folded, engraved plates. A faint small spot on titlepage, otherwise clean and fine, printed on good paper.‎

‎First edition of this importent account of Schmidt's excavations in Schwitzerland, mainly finds in the former Roman settlements, the towns of Aventicum (colonized under Vespasian) and Culm. - ""Un des meilleurs ouvrages qu'on eut publiés jusqu'alors sur les antiquitees de la Suisse."" (Brunet V:210). The works was reprinted in 1771 under a slightly different title.‎

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‎"STEPHENS, GEORGE.‎

‎Prof. S. Bugge's Studies on Northern Mythology shortly examined. With many Illustrations.‎

‎London, Williams and Norgate, 1883. Orig. full blindtooled cloth. (4),180 pp. Richly textillustr. with woodcuts.‎

‎"VEDEL, E.‎

‎Den Ældre Jernalders Begravelser paa Bornholm.‎

‎Kjøbenhav, Gyldendal, 1872. Orig. bogtrykt omslag. Ubeskåret. I ""Aarbøger for Nordisk Oldkyndighed og Historie"" 1872, Første hefte. 104,(2) pp., tekstillustrationer samt 9 plancher med mange afbildninger.‎

‎"WORM, OLE, WILHELM WORM, JANUS WORM ET AL.‎

‎Samlingsbind med skrifter og disputatser af medlemmer af slægten Worm. ialt 12 skrifter.‎

‎Kbhvn., 1619-1739. 4to. Et hldrbd. fra omkring 1750, ryg slidt. Ialt ca. 500 pp.‎

‎"WORM, OLE.‎

‎Danicorum Monumentorum Libri Sex: E spissis antiquitatum tenebris et in Dania ac Norvegia extantibus ruderibus eruti + Regum Daniae Series duplex et Limitum inter Daniam & Sveciam Descriptio. Ex vetustissimo Legum Scanicarum Literis Runicis in membran... - [THE FIRST WRITTEN STUDY OF RUNES]‎

‎Hafnia, Joachim Moltke, 1643 + Melchior Martzan, 1642. Small folio. Bound in a nice contemporary full calf binding with raised bands to richly gilt spine. Spine worn and corners bumped. A damp stain throughout, mostly faint. Title-page of ""Danicorum Moumentorum"" with a contemporary presentation-inscription to verso: ""Ex donatione amici et fautoris nei Secretarii Rejersen./ Wedege."" Contemporary handwritten corrections and additions to the Index. Engraved title-page (by Simon de Pas). (24), 526, (16) pp. + large folded woodcut plate (the Golden Horn). Large woodcuts in the text + (12), 36 pp. The text is in two columns, in Latin and runes. Captions and some runic letters printed in red.‎

‎"WORM, OLE.‎

‎De aureo Cornu. Dissertatio. - [THE FIRST AND MOST IMPORTANT TREATISE ON THE GOLDEN HORN]‎

‎Hafniae (Copenhagen), Melchior Matzan, Joachim Moltke, 1641. Small folio. Bound in an newer absolutely exquisite full mottled calf pastiche-binding with five raised bands and gilt title-label to richly gilt spine. Gilt ornamental borders with gilt corner-pieces to boards, all edges of boards gilt, and inner gilt dentelles. Title-page restored at inner hinge, far from affecting print. Some leaves slighly dusty and some mostly light brownspotting. Overall very nice indeed. The folded plate neatly re-enforced at the foldings, from verso, and on stub. ""Dupl"" written in hand to upper right corner of title-page and with two stamps to verso: ""Museum Britannicum"" and ""British Museum Sale Duplicate 1787"". (8), 72 pp. + large folded engraved plate of the horn.‎

‎Exceedingly scarce first printing of one of the most important works in Scandinavian history. Worm’s monumental 1641-treatise is the first and single most important work on what is arguably the most famous Danish cultural artifact, namely the first Golden Horn, and constitutes our primary source of knowledge of that now lost treasure. For Danes, the Golden Horns, discovered on 1639 and 1734 respectively, with their amazing, complicated, and tragic story, constitute the Scandinavian equivalent to the Egyptian pyramids and have been the object of the same kind of fascination here in the North, causing a wealth of fantastical interpretations, both historical, literary, mystical, linguistic, and artistic. The two golden horns constitute the greatest National treasure that we have. They are both from abound 400 AD and are thought to have been a pair. A span of almost 100 years elapsed between the finding of the first horn and the finding of the second. Although the first was by far the most important, both findings are now a fundamental part of Danish cultural heritage. In 1802 the horns were stolen, and the story of this theft became the greatest Danish detective story of all times. The thief was eventually caught, but it turned out that he had melted both of the horns and used the gold for other purposes. Before the horns were stolen, a copy of the horns was made and shipped to the King of Italy, but the cast which was used to make this copy was destroyed, before news had reached the kingdom of Denmark that the copies made from the cast were lost on their way to Italy, in a shipwreck. Worm's work constitutes not only the earliest description of the seminal first horn, but also the most important source that we now have to the knowledge of the horn. It is on the basis of the description and depiction in the present work that the later copies of the first horn were made. Both horns were found in Gallehus near Møgeltønder, the first in 1639, by Kirsten Svendsdatter, the second in 1734, by Jerk (Erik) Lassen. Kirsten Svendsdatter made her discovery on a small path near her house, initially thinking that she had stumbled upon a root. When she returned to the same place the following week, she dug up the alleged root with a stick, and mistook it for an old hunting horn. She brought it back home and began polishing it. During the polishing of it, a small piece broke off, which she brought to a goldsmith in Tønder. It turned out that the horn was made of pure gold, and rumors of Kirsten's find quickly spread. The horn was eventually brought to the King, Christian IV, and Kirsten was given a reward corresponding to the gold value of the horn. The king gave the horn to his son, who had a lid made for it so that he could use it as a drinking horn. An excavation of the site where the horn was found was begun immediately after, but nothing more was found - that is until 95 years later when Jerk Larsen was digging clay on his grounds - merely 25 paces from where Kirsten had found the first horn. The year was now 1734. The horn that Larsen found was a bit smaller in size and was lacking the tip, but it still weighed 3,666 kg. After the horn had been authenticated, it was sent to King Christian VI, where it was placed in a glass case in the royal art chamber, together with the first horn. Before being placed here, a copy was made of both horns. These copies were the ones lost in the ship wreck, however, and as mentioned the casts had already been destroyed. In the fatal year of 1802, the gold smith and counterfeiter Niels Heldenreich broke in to the royal art chamber and stole the horns. By the time the culprit was discovered, the horns were irrevocably lost - Heldenreich had melted them and used the gold to make other things, such as jewellery. A pair of earrings that are still preserved are thought to have been made with gold from the horns, but this is all that we have now have of the original horns. New horns were produced on the basis of the descriptions and engraved illustrations that were made after the finding of the horns. The plate in the present work constitutes our main source of knowledge of the appearance of the first horn and is the single most important depiction of it, forming the basis of the reproductions. ""The longest of the golden horns was found in 1639 and described by Ole Worm in the book 'De Aureo Cornu', 1641 (a treatise which is also included in his greater ""Danicorum Monumentorum"" [1643]). The German professor at Soro Academy Hendrich Ernst, disagreed with Worm’s interpretation of the horn. Ernst believed that the horn came from Svantevits temple on Rügen, while Worm interpreted it as a war trumpet from the time of Frode Fredegods, decorated with pictures, calling for virtue and good morals. Worm immediately sent his book to Prince Christian and the scholars at home and abroad. You can see in his letters, that not only did the horn make an impression, but also the letter and the interpretation. In that same year there were such lively discussions on the horn among the scholars of Königsberg, now Kaliningrad! In 1643 Worm reiterated the description of the golden horn in his great work on Danish runic inscriptions, 'Monumenta Danica'. In 1644, his descriptions of the horn reached scholars and libraries in Schleswig, Königsberg, London, Rome, Venice and Padua. Several learned men wrote poems for him, and the golden horn was mentioned in an Italian manus. Map Cartoonist Johannes Meyer placed the finds on several of his map of South Jutland. When the Swedish commander Torstensson attacked Jutland in 1643, Peter Winstrup wrote a long poem in Latin addressed to the bishop of Scania (which at that time still belonged to Denmark), the poem was called 'Cornicen Danicus'. It was immediately translated into Danish, entitled 'The Danish Horn Blower'. He interpreted the horn and its images as a warning of war, and his interpretations were very hostile to the Swedish. Paul Egard and Enevold Nielssen Randulf were among some of the other scholars who interpreted the Golden Horn In the 1640s. They were both deans in Holstein, and had a more Christian interpretation of the horn. All these works were illustrated with copies of Worms depictions of the horn. The Golden Horn remained known throughout the 1600s, both in terms of interpretations of the horn and designs. The found of the short golden horn in 1734 renewed the interest of the meaning of the horns."" (National Museum of Denmark). This monument of Danish cultural history is incredibly scarce in the trade. We have never seen a copy before, and there is not a single auction record traceable.‎

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‎"WORSAAE, J.J.A.‎

‎Nordiske Oldsager i Det kongelige Museum i Kjøbenhavn. Ordnede og forklarede. Tegnede og raderede af Magnus Petersen. Forøget udgave af ""Afbildninger fra det Kgl. Museum for nord.Oldsgaer i Kjøbenhavn. 1854.""‎

‎Kjøbenhavn, Kittendorff & Aaagaard, 1859. Lex8vo. Samtidigt hshirtbd. Slid ved false. Stempel på foden af titelbladet. Indvendig frisk. 200 pp., 621 illustr.‎