78 2141 Buffon G L L de 
78 2141 Buffon G L L de 
78 2141 Buffon G L L de 
78 2141 Buffon G L L de 
78 2141 Buffon G L L de 
- All vols. owner's stamp/ entry on first free endpaper; (sl.) foxed throughout. A few vols. spine sl. rubbed/ stained.
= The first collected Belgian edition. Nissen, ZBI 689 (calls for 733 plates, w. a slightly diff. collation). Good set.
78 2142 Buijs J and Uilkens J A 
- Backwr. waterstained; final lvs. sl. dampstained in outer margin.
= Buijnsters 556; Ki.la.ki.le. 104; Bierens de Haan 713 (gives 1798 as year of publication). The work consists of 4 "stukjens" divided over two parts. Influential schoolbook.
(Oordt, J.W.L. van). Volks-, wis- en werktuigkundig lees- en leerboek. Amst., Erven H. van Munster and J. van der Hey, 1839, IV,307p., 3 fold. lithogr. plates, (fold.) tables, contemp. hmor.
- Lacks first free endpaper and/ or htitle; a few owner's stamps on title-p. and pastedowns. Rebacked.
78/2143 Cars Parts Catalogue for the 1954 57 Land Rover 
- Sl. dogeared. Binding worn. = Technical Publication No. TP155/C.
AND 7 others, i.a. by Citroën, Renault and Morris Minor.
78 2144 Chenu J C 
- Sl. foxed and browned. Joints split(ting).
AND 5 others, i.a. H.C. OERSTED, Der Geist in der Natur (Leipsic, 1854, new ed., 2 vols., steelengr. frontisp. portrait, contemp. unif. boards).
78 2145 Chomsky N 
- Owner's entry on htitle.
= No.4 in the series Janua Linguarum. The corrected 2nd printing (?) or binding, still without the list of other titles of the series, but with the preface correctly bound before the introduction. One of the most influental scientific works of the 20th century by one of its leading intellectuals. Regarded as a revolution in the field of linguistics and cognitive science, as it changed the understanding of language.
78/2146 Civil engineering Annales des Ponts et Chaussées 1ére Série 2e Série 
78/2146 Civil engineering Annales des Ponts et Chaussées 1ére Série 2e Série 
- Some sl. foxing; all plates w. folds.
= Plates to accompany Annales des Ponts et Chaussées. Mémoires et documents relatiefs à l'art des constructions et au service de l'ingénieur, lois, décrets, arrètés et autres actes concernant l'administration des ponts et chaussées, a periodical first issued in 1831. They mostly show bridges, canals, dikes, dams, locks and other water management/ hydraulic constructions, public roads, towpaths, sewers, wells and pits, water towers, lighthouses, ports, railways, diagrams on wave movements and other physical phenomena, and (hydraulic) machinery.
78 2147 Civil engineering Bélidor B F de 
78 2147 Civil engineering Bélidor B F de 
78 2147 Civil engineering Bélidor B F de 
78 2147 Civil engineering Bélidor B F de 
- Corners showing.
= Bibl. Mechanica p.31-32 (ed. 1830); Graesse I, p.324; Kat. Orn. Berl., no.3540 (1st ed. 1729); Jähns p.1745: "Es steckt eine unendliche Fülle praktischen Wissens in diesem Werke, das mit einer die geringsten Einzelheiten würdigenden Genauigkeit einen ungewöhnlichen Weitblick verbindet und auch dem Laien verständlich wird durch die schlichte Klarheit der Auseinandersetzungen und durch die 50 trefflichen Kupfertafeln."; DSB I, p. 581-582: "Bélidor's career belongs to the early stages of engineering mechanics."
78 2148 Civil engineering Prony G C F M R de 
- Lacks 2 plates; text partly yellowed; both vols. library stamp/ ticket on title-p.; bookplate on upper pastedown. Joints and spine-ends sl. rubbed.
= Roberts & Trent, Bibliotheca Mechanica p.267-268: "First appearance of this compendious work on hydraulic architecture (...) It presents rational mechanical and engineering principles, using Lagrange's analysis to demonstrate theories of statics, dynamics, and hydrodynamics. (...)". Poggendorf II, 534-536.
78 2149 Civil engineering Suez Canal Lesseps F 
- All vols. w. the same library stamp on title. All but one vol. spine strengthened.
= With AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION on htitle "Sixième Serie". PMM 339; Norman, 1336. "In 1832, while quarantined on his voyage to Alexandria to take up the post of vice-consul, de Lesseps passed the time by reading a copy of Lepère's report to Napoleon on the practicability of a canal connecting the Mediterranean with the Red Sea. Having befriended Mohammed Said, the viceroy's son and later himself viceroy, during his time in Egypt, on his resignation from the consular service in 1854 de Lesseps obtained the concession for the construction of a canal across the Isthmus of Suez. Undeterred by the practical and political objections he set about seeking capital to finance the project; "In this treatise of nearly three hundred pages, with maps... he set out the whole case for the canal and his proposed method of building it. He secured the support of Napoleon III and raised a capital of two hundred million francs. Construction was begun in 1859 and completed ten years later" (PMM).
WITH: a small archive concerning the construction of the Suez Canal, dated between 1864 and 1867, consisting of i.a. lithographed copies of manuscript documents, two manuscript letters signed by F.P. VOISIN and a manuscript profile drawing of the canal from the "Côte Afrique" to the "Côte Asie", kept together in contemp. red hmor. album, folio.
- All but four documents mounted along left margin in album with some remnants of glue occas. visible.
= Comprising i.a. two manuscript letters SIGNED by F.P. VOISIN, the chief engineer for the Suez Canal Company, one regarding meetings in June and August 1864 and one addressed to Mr. Laroche, chief engineer in Port Said, ordering him to do all to prepare the Suez Canal as indicated by the scientific research done ((2)p., dated "7 Octobre 1864"); one large drawing in red and black pen and ink showing the canal's profile with height calculations ("Profil", 60x47 cm.); 18 lithogr. "Ordre de Service", numb. "1" to "18" by the Direction générale des Travaux from the Compagnie universelle de Canal maritime de Suez (signed in lithography by F. LESSEPS and F.P. VOISIN), each approx. 2-3 lvs., dated between 1863-1866 and 10 lithogr. "Instructions" in similar style.
78 2150 The Collected Papers of Lord Rutherford of Nelson Ed J Chadwick 
78 2151 Curie P 
78 2151 Curie P 
- Small stamp "Offert par la Société Française de Physique" on htitle; owner's entry on title and frontcover. Frontwrapper detached; bookblock broken.
= Complete collection of Pierre Curie's publications, including those with M. Curie. DSB III, p.503-508: "It was Marie Curie who, impressed by Roentgen's and Becquerel's discoveries, considered investigating other substances exhibiting the same properties as uranium. For Pierrie Curie this was a new period in his scientific career: in close collaboration with his wife, he was to study radioactivity and discover polonium and radium (...) The success of their collaboration was assured by the complementary nature of their talents. Pierre Curie appeared to be the complete physicist (...); Marie Curie on the other hand, was trained mainly as a chemist (...) The reason for their succes may be found in the new method of chemical analysis based on the precise measurement of radiation emitted, a method still in use. It shows the trademark of Pierre Curie."
78 2152 Cuvier G ed 
- Lower corner waterstained throughout (occas. touching text); sl. foxed. Binding worn.
= First edition of the work describing the development of natural science under the Directorat, especially under Napoleon.
78 2153 Darwin C 
78 2153 Darwin C 
- Hinges weak; owner's entry on upper pastedown/ htitle; occas. sl. foxed. = Freeman 656.
Idem. The Foundations of the Origin of Species. Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844. Ed. F. Darwin. Cambridge, at the University Press, 1909, XXVII,(1),263p., photogr. facs. portrait, contemp. cloth w. gilt coat of arms of EYE GRAMMAR SCHOOL on frontcover.
- Top of spine chipped. Contents fine.
= With "Miller Prize for French (Upper School)", dated 1926-1927 and awarded to Elsie Alderton, after whom the character of obsessive would-be writer Laura Wissilcraft in Henry W. Williamson's novel The Gale of the World (1969) was modelled. Freeman 1556.
AND 1 other on the same: R.B. FREEMAN, The Works of Charles Darwin (London, 1965, orig. cl. w. (dam.) dustwr.).
78 2154 Desarces H 
78 2154 Desarces H 
78 2154 Desarces H 
78 2154 Desarces H 
- Fine copies. = Contains several spectacular multi-layered plates of cars, trains, engines etc.
78 2155 Deutsche Tierrassen 
78 2155 Deutsche Tierrassen 
= Showing i.a. horses, cows, sheep and pigs.
Floericke, K. Vogelbuch. Gemeinverständliche Naturgeschichte der mitteleuropäischen Vogelwelt. Stuttg./Wiesbaden, Franckh, 1922, 2nd ed., 496p., portr., 54 col. lithogr. plates, ills., orig. clothbacked dec. boards, 4to. - AND 5 others in 7 vols., i.a. C. HENNICKE, Die Raubvögel Mitteleuropas (Halle, n.d., 61 (col.) lithogr. plates loose in rear pocket, orig. cl. w. dustwr.).
78 2156 Diderot D and d'Alembert J 
78 2156 Diderot D and d'Alembert J 
78 2156 Diderot D and d'Alembert J 
78 2156 Diderot D and d'Alembert J 
- Fourth plate vol. lacks 1 plate. Contents in very fine, untrimmed condition.
= Plate vols.: vol. 1: "Cartier" (how to make playing cards), alphabets, "Canons", "Cartonnier", "Cidre" and "Cuisinier, Patissier, Traiteur, Rotiseur"; vol. 2: "Diamantair, Lapidaire, Metteur-en-oeuvre", "Écrivain, Art d'écrire", "Fayencerie", "Filets de Pêche et de Chasse", "Glaciere, Glace artificielle", "Globes", "Gravure en Lettres, Topographie, Géographie & Musique" and "Horlogerie"; vol. 3: "Horlogerie", "Imprimerie", "Instruments de Musique", "Luthier", "Marbrerie", "Marbreur de Papier", "Menuisier en Meubles", "Menuisier en Voitures" and "Meunier"; vol. 4: such as the fabrication of mozaics, gold- and silversmiths, paper, porcelain, gunpowder and tobacco and pipes.
78 2157 Diderot D and d'Alembert J 
- A few plates w. restorations (1x w. sl. loss of image).
= Plates showing i.a. fish, butterflies, shells, spiders, plants and minerals. Incl. 2 large fold. plates of a louse in close-up.
78 2158 Diderot D and d'Alembert J 
78 2158 Diderot D and d'Alembert J 
78 2158 Diderot D and d'Alembert J 
78 2158 Diderot D and d'Alembert J 
78 2158 Diderot D and d'Alembert J 
- Double-p. plates are counted as 2 plates. Lacks 4 plates (incl. 1 double-p.) and a few textp. (p.17ff of the anatomy section; 5 plates loosely added from another copy, incl. 2 dupl.). Joints splitting; spine-ends dam.; corners showing.
= PMM 200; Graesse II, p.389. The plates to the famous Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers, first published 1751-1765, covering all aspects of science, industries and arts. Contains plates of i.a. the following series: "Fabrique de tabac", "Sucrerie & affinage", "Anatomie", "Antiquités", "Architecture", "Arquebusier", "Art Militaire" and "Artificier".
78/2159 Dogs Le Chien Description des races croisements élevage dressage maladies et leur traitement D'après les ouvrages les plus récents de Stonehenge Youatt Mayhew Bouley Hamilton Smit
- Trifle foxed. Spine-ends worn/ sl. dam.; corners showing. = Thiébaud p.201; Souhart p.626.
AND 3 others, incl. 2 duplicates and P. MÉGNIN, Le Chien. Histoire, hygiène, médecine (ibid., 1883, 2nd ed., 73 woodengr. ills., contemp. treecalf w. gilt spine, large 8vo).
78 2160 Duhem P 
- Spines sl. sunned.
= Pierre Duhem is regarded as having created the field of the history of medieval science. During his research into the origins of statics he encountered medieval scientists, such as Nicole Oresme, whom he consequently regarded as the founders of modern science in opposition to the tendency of the time to regard the Medieval times as dark and unfruitful. DSB IV, p. 225-233: "Duhem was that rare, not to say unique, scientist whose contributions to the philosophy of science, the historiography of science, and science itself (in thermodynamics, hydrodynamics, elasticity, and physical chemistry) were of profound importance on a fully professional level in all three disciplines."