81 2064 Solzhenitsyn A 
- Some sm. stains on backwr. A good/ fine copy. = Rare early tamizdat edition.
81 2065 Solzhenitsyn A 
- A few library stamps/ annots.; sl. stained and fingersoiled; partly dogeared.
= Rare early tamizdat edition.
81 2066 Solzhenitzyn A 
- Owner's entry on first blank. Wrs. sl. foxed and creased.
81 2067 Staël Holstein A L G de 
- Backstrips worn; top of spines chipped.
= Cf. Vicaire VII, p.653, listing a second edition published in Paris, 1814: "Je n'ai pu voir la première édition publiée, en 1810, chez le même éditeur [Paris, Nicolle]". Quérard, La France Littéraire IX, p.252 (French 2nd ed., 1814): "La première édition, tirée à 10.000 exemplaires, fut saisie en entier et brûlée ou mise au pilon: il n'en est échappé que quelques exemplaires."
81 2068 Stona M 
81 2068 Stona M 
- Endpapers trifle foxed. Corners showing; spine plasticized.
= One of 200 DELUXE copies signed by the author and artist.
81 2069 Sullivan V = B Vian 
- First 10 pages cut shorter in outer margin, just outside the text. Lacks backwr.; frontwr. loose and dam. along edges; spine heavily worn.
= Under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan, Boris Vian wrote rather bizarre parodies of criminal fiction, which were highly controversial at the time of their release. This pulp fiction book was published as a provocation by the author to his critics. Both the publisher Vendôme press and this book were solely created to make people believe in the existence of Vian's alias. The original French publication J'irai cracher sur vos tombes (1946) was also written by Sullivan, although he let people believe it was written by an underappreciated young black author whose work was banned in his native country. Very rare.
81 2070 Swift J 
- Plates trifle foxed, not affecting image; endpapers browned; bookplate on upper pastedown. Binding trifle/ sl. worn along extremities; remnants of paper titlepiece on backstrip.
Bunyan, J. The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come. London, J.C. Nimmo, 1895, XII,379p., etched frontisp. portrait of the author, etched htitle and 12 plates by W. STRANG, contemp. cl. w. gilt spine, 4to.
- Contents occas. trifle foxed along margins, otherwise fine. Backstrip (sl.) dam.
AND 2 others in 3 vols., i.a. F. RABELAIS, Works (...) (London, n.d. (1921), 2 vols., ills. and plates by W. HEATH ROBINSON, orig. unif. gilt cl., 4to).
81 2071 Tomlinson H M 
= Comprises the following: 1. Autograph letter signed to Mrss Constable & Co. covering the sending of Tomlinson's introduction to Pierre, or the Ambiguities ((1)leaf, recto only); 2. Typescript of the introduction to Pierre, or The Ambiguities for the edition publ. by Dutton, NY in 1929 ((8) leaves, recto only); 3. Autograph letter signed to C.A. Williamson, one leaf, recto only, w. printed letterhead "Ridgewood, Croham Manor Road, South Croydon", w. orig. envelope, commenting i.a. "It looks to me as if it is not worth while to educate children whose parents frustrate your efforts"; 4. Autograph letter signed to "Major Dawson", dated "18.11.41", 1 leaf, recto and verso. Affectionate response to Dawson's appreciation of a radio broadcast by Tomlinson on Joseph Conrad, expressing his gladness at finding that "not only sanity subsists, but understanding, & good will (...) in a world curiously alien" [the war years].
81/2072 Vesennyj salon poetov Spring salon of poets 
- Dedication on first blank. Wrappers reattached and sl. creased and waterst.; backstrip restored.
= The first (and as it turned out, final) issue of a literary almanac intended to be published on a regular basis to present the latest movements in Russian poetry. With contributions by i.a. Anna Akhmatova, Aleksandr Blok, Zinaida Gippius, Sergei Yesenin, Osip Mandelshtam, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Boris Pasternak and Marina Tsvetaeva.
81 2073 Agriculture Duchesne E A 
81 2073 Agriculture Duchesne E A 
- Lacks frontisp.; the plates loose; occas. sl. foxed. = Rare.
81 2074 Agriculture Herrera A de 
- Two index lvs. lack lower corner; sm. tear along lower inner margin title. Frontcover and backstrip chafed.
81 2075 Amuchástegui A 
= Unnumbered copy, bound in cloth: "File copy only, ex series" in green pen on colophon.
81 2076 Anatomy Albinus B S 
- Lacks 2 plates; contemp. owner's entry and tipped-in catalogue entry on first blank. Backstrip professionally restored.
= Choulant 60f; Hirsch/ H.1, p.91; Bibl. Walleriana 337 (incompl.); Wellcome II, p.26; Garrison/ Morton 399: "Albinus was one of the greatest anatomical illustrators of the 18th century; his illustrations of the bones and muscles were noted for their beauty and accuracy and his work established a new standard in anatomical illustration". The first edition.
81 2077 Anatomy Bidloo G 
81 2077 Anatomy Bidloo G 
81 2077 Anatomy Bidloo G 
81 2077 Anatomy Bidloo G 
- Frontisp. and several leaves (finger)soiled in margins; (sl.) foxed/ spotted, mainly in first half of the volume; 1 textp. w. inkstain; the plate of the female nude body w. contemp. added pubic hair and short annot. in pen and ink; one plate sl. stained; plate no. 55 w. neatly closed large tear in image and a few plates w. neatly closed small tear in blank margin; new endpapers. Binding worn along extremities; joints starting but holding well.
= The second Dutch edition, originally published in Latin in 1685 (Bibl. Walleriana 1039; Krivatsky 1239; Choulant p.93-95). This edition not in the usual bibliographies. Splendid baroque anatomical atlas. "For Lairesse, the anatomical illustrations Bidloo asked him to undertake were an occasion for an artistic meditation on anatomy: he displayed his figures in an emotional, almost tender manner, contrasting the raw dissected parts with the full, soft surfaces of uncut flesh, placing flayed, bound figures in ordinary nightclothes or bedding, setting ordinary household objects such as books, jars or cabinets in the same scene as cut-up torsos or limbs, and in one plate showing a fly crawling on an opened abdomen. His illustrations brought the qualities of Dutch still-life painting into anatomical illustration, and gave a new, darker spiritual expression to the significance of the act of dissection." (Norman Library no. 231); "These are masterpieces of Dutch baroque art. When William of Orange came to England in 1688, Bidloo was chosen to accompany him as his physician." (Garrison/ Morton 385 (Latin ed.)). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLIX.
81 2078 Architecture K ramer H 
81 2078 Architecture K ramer H 
- Backstrip worn.
= Very rare work on doorways, not in the usual reference works. The author is most probably Hendrick Kramer, town mason of Amsterdam. Contains an extra plate showing a funerary monument, seemingly from a different series.
81 2079 Astronomy Brandes H W 
= Houzeau/ Lancaster I, 8991.
81 2080 Astronomy Lansberghe P van 
81 2080 Astronomy Lansberghe P van 
81 2080 Astronomy Lansberghe P van 
- Title-p. and final textleaf browned; partly (sl.) waterstained (esp. first 4 textleaves); 1 fold. plate repaired on fold. Binding dam. (lacks backstrip and most of paper over covers).
= Copy with 4 extra fold. engr. plates (numb. "I" to "IIII") from an unidentified work, showing the solar system in various aspects. Our copy is without the portrait, of which Hoogendoorn says (under LansPo7.1): "The portrait of the author at age 67 is not always present"; Bierens de Haan 2666; Poggendorff I 1373. ''In his Progymnasmatum astronomiae restitutae de motu solis (Middelburg, 1619) Van Lansberge taught the probability of the earth's motion according to the Copernican doctrine; the same is true of Bedenckingen op den dagelyckschen, ende jaerlyckschen loop van den aerdt-kloot (Middelburg, 1629), translated into Latin by M. Hortensius as Commentationes in motum terrae diurnum, et annuum (Middelburg, 1630)'' (DSB, p.28). No copy traced in the JAP. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLIX.
81 2081 Auction booksellers' and library catalogues Dryander J 
= Facs. reprint of the edition London, 1796-1800, cataloguing the private library of the English naturalist and botanist Joseph Banks (1743-1820). Comprises: I. Scriptores Generales; II. Zoologi; III. Botanici; IV. Mineralogi; V. Supplementum et index auctorum.
Cobres, J.P. Deliciae Cobresianae. Büchersammlung zur Naturgeschichte. Amst., A. Asher & Co., 1966, 2 vols., (8),XXVIII,470; (6),471-956,(1)p., 2 frontisp., orig. unif. giltlettered cl.
= Facs. reprint of the edition Augsburg, 1782.
Rivinus, A.Q. Bibliotheca Riviniana sive Catalogus librorum philologico-philosophico-historicorum, itinerariorum, inprimis autem medicorum, botanicorum et historiae naturalis scriptorum &c. rariorum. Ibid., idem, 1966, (22),740,(107)p., portrait, orig. giltlettered cl.
= Facs. reprint of the edition Leipsic, 1727.
81 2082 Bergsträsser J A B 
= First edition of this rare work. Defence written by Bergsträsser against the claim by the French that Claude Chappe was the inventor of the visual telegraphic system. Poggendorf I, p.152.
81 2083 Bonnet C 
- Vol. 2 prelim. lvs. trifle wormholed in blank margin. Bindings sl. worn/ rubbed.
= Wellcome II, p.200; Pritzel 982; Heirs of Hippocrates 947; Garrison/ Morton 472: "Bonnets theory of generation offered the best synthesis of 18th century ideas of development and remained a leading authority until von Baer. Bonnet believed in the preformation of the embryo."