Lot 667
J. P. Süßmilch, Die göttliche Ordnung in den Veränderungen des menschlichen Geschlechts. 3 Vol. Berlin 1787-88.
Estimate
€ 200
Starting Price
€ 140
Lot:
667
Category:
History, cultural history and miscellaneous
Artist:
Johann Peter Süssmilch
Süssmilch , Johann Peter: Die göttliche Ordnung in den Veränderungen des menschlichen Geschlechts, aus der Geburt, dem Tode und der Fortpflanzung desselben erwiesen. 4. (bzw. 2.) verb. Ausg. ... berichtiget von Christian Jacob Baumann. Neue Auflage. 3 Vol. Berlin: Buchhandlung der Realschule 1787-88. 20,5 x 11,7 cm. 5 sheets, pp. (III) – XX, 576, 130 pp. + 2 sheets, 580, 81 pp. + XVI, 735 pp., 1 additional sheet, 68 pp. Hardback, 5 bands with red and green gold-stamped spines; front cover and gold-stamped initials ‘G. A.’. Marbled endpapers; coloured edges.
(Minor scuffs and signs of wear.)
Humpert 12169. Cf. Kress 5987, 6302 and 7169 (1761–1762, 1765 and 1775–1776). – A fine edition of the revised version of the work, first published in two volumes in 1740, which today forms the basis of statistics and demography. - “Using the parish registers of Brandenburg’s parishes, he conducted his own statistical research, which was underpinned by the notion of a God conceived as an ‘infinite and precise Arithmeticus’, whose constant workings were revealed in the regularity of population trends, the divine order of which S. sought to demonstrate. From the statistical data he had carefully compiled, taking into account the differing trends among men and women and the distribution of mortality across individual age groups, he drew up mortality tables which formed the basis for the Royal Prussian General Widows’ Pension Institution, established in 1775 by King Frederick II, and which were used in life insurance until the mid-19th century. (NDB 25, 686).
(Minor scuffs and signs of wear.)
Humpert 12169. Cf. Kress 5987, 6302 and 7169 (1761–1762, 1765 and 1775–1776). – A fine edition of the revised version of the work, first published in two volumes in 1740, which today forms the basis of statistics and demography. - “Using the parish registers of Brandenburg’s parishes, he conducted his own statistical research, which was underpinned by the notion of a God conceived as an ‘infinite and precise Arithmeticus’, whose constant workings were revealed in the regularity of population trends, the divine order of which S. sought to demonstrate. From the statistical data he had carefully compiled, taking into account the differing trends among men and women and the distribution of mortality across individual age groups, he drew up mortality tables which formed the basis for the Royal Prussian General Widows’ Pension Institution, established in 1775 by King Frederick II, and which were used in life insurance until the mid-19th century. (NDB 25, 686).