HAECKEL, Ernst.
Die Wissenschaft und der Umsturz. Separatabdruck aus der “Zukunft” ar. 18 vom 2. Februar 1895. Berlin, Damcke, 1895.
8vo, pp. 10; somewhat age-toned but a very good copy, extremely fragile, stapled in the original printed wrappers, the front wrapper, first leaf and rear wrapper (also the last leaf) detached; presentation inscription from Haeckel to Dr. Persifor Frazer, Philadelphia.
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Die Wissenschaft und der Umsturz. Separatabdruck aus der “Zukunft” ar. 18 vom 2. Februar 1895.
First edition thus, very rare, an offprint from Die Zukunft (“The Future”), a German socialdemocratic weekly journal edited by Maximilian Harden. Haeckel writes about the Umsturz (i.e. Putsch or coup) debates in the Reichstag in January 1895, and the applications of the laws which affected scientists in Germany (“Substanz-gegetz”) including Hermann Helmholtz.
Provenance: Persifor Frazer was a geologist and handwriting expert. He participated in geological surveys for Pennsylvania and held the chair in chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania from 1870. He was a specialist in identification of forged documents and served as a witness in several trials. Haeckel presumably knew of him as a mineralogist, and seems to refer to him here as a teacher, probably when he was Chair of Chemistry at the Franklin Institute, after 1891.
Apparently exceedingly rare; no copies located on OCLC or COPAC. Haeckel presentation copies and autographs are relatively scarce in commerce; we traced five examples at auction in the last ten years.