Albert SCHWEITZER

First edition of the French translation.
Illustrated with photographs by Erica Anderson, with text and captions by Eugène Exman.

Preface by Daniel Halévy.
Pleasing copy complete with its illustrated dust jacket, showing minor losses and angular tears to the spine, along with some marginal scuffing to the panels.

Bookplate affixed to the inside front cover.

Rare dated and signed presentation inscription by Albert Schweitzer on a blank flyleaf: "A monsieur Bernard Tessier en souvenir de son passage à Lambaréné le 1.9.1956, Albert Schweitzer."

New edition, with mention of the print run.
Illustrated.
Two losses to the spine; complete with its illustrated dust jacket, which shows small chips and angular tears. One gathering poorly opened with minor marginal losses not affecting the text.

Bookplate affixed to the verso of the front cover.

Rare signed presentation inscription by Albert Schweitzer: "A monsieur et madame André Fontan en souvenir de leur passage à Lambarené le 2.6.1963, avec mes bonnes pensées. Albert Schweitzer."

Booklet of the "Rabelaisian menu" offered on "diemenche 26 de oiteuvre 1952" [Sunday, 26 October 1952] on the menu of the Parisian restaurant Au Mouton de Panurge, gastronomic headquarters of the Amis de Rabelais et de La Devinière, whose walls were decorated by Albert Dubout, who is also the author of the illustrations featured here. On the final page appear several facsimile signatures of distinguished regulars of the establishment. Our booklet is enhanced by a gift inscription from one of these signatories, Albert Schweitzer: "to Andrée [Eekman, his goddaughter, also the niece of his close...

Offprint from this prestigious publication directed by François Albert-Buisson, President and Perpetual Secretary of the "Académie des Sciences Morales & Politiques", and Claude Pellegrin, editor-in-chief and attaché to the Academy. The text featured here, Le problème de l'éthique dans l'évolution de la pensée humaine (The Problem of Ethics in the Evolution of Human Thought), is the work of a newly elected member of the Academy, who had been a member for only a few months when this offprint was published, having taken the seat previously held by Marshal Pétain; namely...

First English edition — of a recognised theological work — based on the 1906 first edition written in German.
Contemporary Bradel publisher's khaki binding, smooth spine lettered with the title and author's name in gilt at head and with the publisher's name in gilt at foot, as well as gilt fillets at extremities, two blind-stamped fillets framing the boards. Autograph inscription by Albert Schweitzer in ink on the front free endpaper to Adèle Herrenschmidt, a friend he nicknamed "Tata" — and possibly lover according to some scholars — thirty-two years his senior, with whom he maintained a close relationship for nearly a quarter of a century and whom he...

First German edition, in part original, of this work devoted to one of Albert Schweitzer's intellectual guides, Johann Sebastian Bach, which he began in 1903 at the age of 28, at the suggestion of the preface's author, his organ professor Charles-Marie Widor. The first edition was published in 1905 in French with 455 pages. The First German edition, recognized by several scholars as constituting an entirely new work, considerably different from the previous edition, appeared in 1908 with 844 pages.