- Foxed.
- Spine-ends sl. dam.
AND a facs. reprint of DEUTSCHE WAFFEN- UND MUNITIONSFABRIKEN. Munitions-Katalog. Ausgabe 1904 (Chicago, n.d., ills., orig. rexine, 4to).
= 1. Infantry Regiments. Pioneer Battalions. General Officers; 2. Cavalry. Artillery. Train.
AND 3 others, i.a. E. EGG a.o., Kanonen. Illustrierte Geschichte der Artillerie (Bern etc., 1971, (col.) ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., folio) and H.-W. LEWERKEN, Kombinations Waffen des 15.-19. Jahrhunderts (Berlin, 1989, (col.) ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., folio).
= Standard work on the subject.
- Frontcover sl. waterst.
- Bookblock frayed; spine strengthened.
Idem. Zur Feldgeschützfrage. Ibid., R. Eisenschmidt, 1896, VIII,400p., fold. plate, ills., contemp. hcl. w. orig. frontwr. laid down.
- Ex-library copy w. cancellation stamps etc.
AND 6 others, i.a. IDEM, Das Feldgeschütz der Zukunft und die Kritik der Gegenwart (ibid., 1892, orig. wr.); IDEM, Ueber die Bewaffnung der Feld-Artillerie (ibid., 1880, later plain wr.) and IDEM, Die kommende Feldgeschütze (ibid., 1893, fold. plates, contemp. hcl. w. orig. frontwr. laid down).
- A few scattered library stamps. Bindings sl. soiled.
AND 3 others, i.a. A. KORZEN and R. KÜHN, Waffenlehre (Vienna, 1905, fold. plates, orig. limp cl.).
- Binding sl. foxed; spine sunned.
= The Rheinische Metallwaaren- und Mashinenfabrik (today Rheinmetall) produced munition and weaponry. After the peace treaty of Versailles (and again after World War II), the company switched to non-military production. The plates showing canons and armory, both in the factory and in the field. Rare.
AND 1 other on the 50-year jubilee of the same company.
- Without vol. 4, part 2; several plates damp-/ waterst.; frayed and sl. dam.; occas. yellowed/ sl. browned. Bindings worn; covers loose and plasticized (2 vols.).
= BMN I, p.91; Waller 486. The 3rd vol. was never published.
- Owner's entries on htitles and titles; browned and partly waterstained; 1p. torn in half.
ADDED: Winkler, C. and Potter, A. An Anatomical Guide to Experimental Researches on the Cat's Brain. A Series of 35 Frontal Sections. Amst., W. Versluys, 1914, (14)p., 41 woodengr. plates, each w. accomp. text leaf, orig. cl., obl. folio.
- The plates partly sl. frayed; flaps portfolio dam. Bindings w. some worn spots.
- Foxed/ partly sl. yellowed; library and cancellation stamp on prelim. lvs. and title. Corners showing; backstrip dam.; frontcover partly detached.
= The rare second edition of Leveling's German translation, limited to 1500 copies, in which the original woodblocks from Vesalius' De humani corporis fabrica libri septem (1543) were used. The blocks were destroyed in the bombing of Munich during World War II. Bibl. Walleriana 5752; Wellcome III, p.508.
- Leather over spine sl. dried; spine-ends sl. worn.
= Wellcome IV, 178; DSB vol.9, p.510: "The Adversaria anatomica prima is a series of researches on fine anatomy conducted according to the tradition established by Malpighi, although Morgagni showed greater caution in the use of the microscope and in making anatomical preparations. Despite the modesty of its title - "Notes on Anatomy" - Morgagni's book actually records a whole succession of discoveries regarding minute organic mechanisms, including the glands of the trachea, of the male urethra, and of the female genitals (...). "
- A fine and complete copy, with the following minor defects: title-p. reattached; title-p. and verso of final leaf sl. dustsoiled; occas. sl./ trifle fingersoiled in blank margin; a few leaves w. unobtrusibve sm. restoration to lower outer corners.
= Van Ortroy (Apian) no.42 (listing 4 volvelle plates, placed on the leaves as in our copy); Van Ortroy (Gemma Frisius) no.31; Alden, European Americana 553/4; Bibl. Belgica A224. Shirley no.96. One of the most important and popular 16th cent. works on cosmography, this treatise deals i.a. with triangulation, the climatic zones in which the earth may be divided, and with methods of determining latitude and longitude. The worldmap (as used in the editions of 1544 and after) is one of the earliest maps to indicate America by that name. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVII.
- Later endpapers and blanks; occas. trifle fingersoiled; Binding sl. warped. Fine copy.
= Contemp. annot. in pen on title-p.: "Sum ex libris Francisci Boudius". Houzeau/ Lancaster 9714; Crone 172; Cat. NHSM I, p.39; Bierens de Haan 334. First published in Amst., 1620. Rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVII.
- Contents partly (sl.) browned. Binding sl. worn along extremities.
- Owner's entry of Jacobus de Schipper of Wemeldinge on first free endpaper, dated 1804; one tiny wormhole in blank outer margin throughout. Pastedowns detached; sm. contemp. annot. in pen and ink on one plate. Otherwise a fine copy.
= The (15)p. at the end contain Redenering wegens de vinding der lengte van Oost en West. Hoogendoorn GraafA07: "By all appearances this work is a precis of Dirck Rembrantsz van Nierop's Nederduitse astronomie, and De Graaf was therefore repeatedly accused of plagiarism." Bierens de Haan 1754 and 1755. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVII.
- Library tickets on upper pastedowns. Fine copy.
= Full title: "The astrolabes of the world based upon the series of instruments in the Lewis Evans Collection in the Old Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, with notes on astrolabes in the collections of the British Museum, Science Museum, Sir J. Findlay, Mr. S. V. Hoffman, the Mensing Collection, and in other public and private collections. Vol. I: the eastern astrolabes; vol. II: the western astrolabes.
= Early comprehensive overview of (the technique of) ballooning and airplanes. Rare.
Het vliegveld. Officieel orgaan der Koninklijke Nederlandsche Vereeniging voor Luchtvaart. Amst., N.V. Het Vliegveld, 1918-1921, 12 vols., num. ills., orig. not unif. pict. wr., 4to.
- Wrappers w. small defects.
AND 10 others i.a. a gelatin silverprint of A. FOKKER: "Fokker am Startplatz die Wagen besichtigend" (12x17 cm., w. tickets and stamps on verso "Berliner Bild-Bericht").