82 2884 Railways Biot E 
82 2884 Railways Biot E 
82 2884 Railways Biot E 
- Sl. foxed. Upper joint starting.
= First French book on the construction of (French) railroads w. 2 nice plates.
Deharme, E. Chemins de fer. Superstructure. Paris, École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, n.d. (1883), atlas vol., 104 fold./ double-p. lithogr. plates (1x col.), contemp. hcalf, 4to.
- Most plates sl. yellowed; 1x sl. creased; 1x w. sm. tear. Sl. rubbed along extremities.
= Plates show i.a. (the mechanisms of) railroads and locomotives, plans of train stations (i.a. Strasbourg, Paris and Saint-Lazare) and passenger terminals.
82 2885 Railways Ommeren P J van a o 
- Fold. plates occas. splitting on folds and faded/ yellowed.
= The railway track between Rotterdam and The Hague/ Scheveningen was the first electrified line in The Netherlands and was opened in 1908. The Zuid-Hollandsche Electrische Spoorweg-Maatschappij (ZHESM) was founded in 1900 to build electric railway lines in the province of South Holland. "Het initiatief tot de bouw van de lijn werd genomen door een groep particulieren onder leiding van de Rotterdamse zakenman P.J. van Ommeren. Doelgroep van de lijn waren Rotterdamse badgasten die naar Scheveningen wilden, en forensen die in Wassenaar en Voorburg woonden en in Rotterdam werkten" (quoted from the master thesis of R.E. Horstman, De Kop van Noord een nieuw tijdperk voor de Hofpleinlijn te Rotterdam (publ. Eindhoven, 2008). Apparently the present lot is the preparative report by Van Ommeren c.s. that led up to the founding of the ZHESM company. Judging from the fact that most of the report was written in German, Van Ommeren had to source his information from a foreign company/ foreign engineer.
82/2886 Recueil de diverses Pièces sur la Philosophie la Religion Naturelle l'Histoire les Mathematiques &c par Mrs Leibniz Clarke Newton & autres Auteurs célèbres 
- Lacks frontisp. in 2nd vol.; both vols. partly (sl.) waterst.; a few lvs. trifle wormholed in blank margin. Spine-ends and corners worn.
= Miscellaneous collection of short works (i.a. philosophical, mathematical and historical), first publ. in 1720.
82 2887 Rohault J 
- Lacks 8 plates; sl. yellowed. Binding rubbed and sl. worn.
= Latin translation of Rohault's Traité de Physique (1671), long considered a standard work popularizing Cartesian physics.
82 2888 Seba A 
82 2888 Seba A 
82 2889 Segondat = Reinke J T 
82 2889 Segondat = Reinke J T 
- Bookplate on upper pastedown, contemp. owner's entry on first free endpaper and on title-p. Binding trifle rubbed.
82/2890 Shipbuilding Leitfaden für den Unterricht im Schiffbau Ed Inspektion des Bildungswesens der Marine 
82/2890 Shipbuilding Leitfaden für den Unterricht im Schiffbau Ed Inspektion des Bildungswesens der Marine 
- A few scattered libr. stamps. Spine-ends sl. worn. Good copy.
= With "Tabellen über die Kriegsschiffe der deutschen und der ausländischen Marinen" (94p.) bound in the plate vol.
82 2891 Sigaud de la Fond J A 
82 2891 Sigaud de la Fond J A 
82 2891 Sigaud de la Fond J A 
82 2891 Sigaud de la Fond J A 
- Vol. 2 waterst. in upper margin; sl. foxed; a few plates margins frayed and dampstained. Bindings sl. chafed; letterpieces chipped.
= Wheeler Gift 455; Cole 1210. Vol. 1 contains experiments in general physics; vol. 2 focuses on electricity and magnetism.
82 2892 Sommer J G 
82 2892 Sommer J G 
- Each vol. w. bookplate on upper pastedown; 3 vols. hinges weak/ broken; plates occas. sl. browned/ foxed. Bindings worn.
= Poggendorff II, p.957. Early lithographs.
82 2893 Sundials Richer C 
82 2893 Sundials Richer C 
82 2893 Sundials Richer C 
- Lacks frontisp.; fold. plate sl. creased in margins and w. sm. closed tear near inner margin; contemp. owner's entry on title-p. ("ex libris ludovici compagnot"). Otherwise a fine copy.
= The rare first edition. Houzeau & Lancaster, I, 11561.
82 2894 Sundials Schübler J J 
82 2894 Sundials Schübler J J 
- Later owner's entry on title. Otherwise fine.
= Kat. Orn. Berlin 1754; Poggendorf II, p.853. Richly illustrated instruction for the fabrication of different sorts on sundials.
82 2895 Trade catalogues Zeiss C 
= Presentation copy for machine construction company Krasnyj Put' (Moscow). With loosely inserted accompanying letter in Russian, dated "Jena, August 1930".
82 2896 Trade catalogues Furniture Fay & Egan Co J A 
82 2896 Trade catalogues Furniture Fay & Egan Co J A 
- Owner's stamp on title-p.; 1 fold. plate w. tear. Good copy.
Kirchner, E. Saw Mill and Wood Working Machinery. Leipsic, Kirchner, n.d. (±1900), XI,383p., woodengr. frontisp. and num. ills., orig. pict. cl., large 4to.
- Occas. sl. foxed. Binding sl. soiled/ worn along extremities.
AND 2 other trade-catalogues of THE DEFIANCE MACHINE WORK (Defiance, 1895) and PANHARD & LEVASSOR (Paris, ±1910), and a copy of the first work in 2 vols. (final part sl. waterst. in inner blank margin).
82 2897 Whaling Naess E D 
82 2897 Whaling Naess E D 
- Two lvs. w. sm. tear. Good/ fine copy.
= Very rare. Diary by Erling D. Naess of the two month whaling voyage of the 'Vikingen', 16 Dec. 1934-18 Feb. 1935, from Cape Town to the Enderby Land whaling grounds (Antarctic waters). The 'Vikingen' was a Rasmussen whaling company ship. The diary gives detailed notes regarding the catch, as well as technical details and plans of the Vikingen and its companion ships the Vestfold and the Sir James Clark Ross. Erling Dekke Næss (1901-1993) was a Norwegian businessman (and later shipowner), who was asked in 1927 to invest in the Viking Whaling Company Ltd. by two Norwegian whaling pioneers. The plan was to build a whaling ship that included a whaling factory on board, basically a tanker. In 1934 he went to Cape Town to study the whale hunt himself. After a decade the company was sold and Naess entered the oil tanker business.
82 2898 Zoology Beddard F E 
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; hinges weak (some quires loosening). Sl. worn along extremities.
= Rare work on the purpose and mechanisms of 'protective coloration' (i.e. camouflage), sexual selection and mimicry.
82 2899 Zoology Bewick T 
- Trifle foxed. Covers sl. rubbed; rebacked w. use of contemp. backstrip.
= Roscoe 2 a-b; Nissen ZBI 351; Ray 49 (ed. 1790).
AND a copy of the 5th ed. (1807) of the same work.
82 2900 Zoology Bewick T 
82 2900 Zoology Bewick T 
- Some foxing; hinges weak. Frontcover reattached; joints split; backstrip dam. and loose(ning).
= Large paper copy. Roscoe 2 a-b; Nissen ZBI 351; Ray 49 (ed. 1790).
AND a copy of the 5th ed. (1807) of the same work (lacks frontcover).
82 2901 Zoology Buffon G L L de a o 
82 2901 Zoology Buffon G L L de a o 
82 2901 Zoology Buffon G L L de a o 
82 2901 Zoology Buffon G L L de a o 
82 2901 Zoology Buffon G L L de a o 
- All vols. w. (remnants of) bookplate on upper pastedown and owner's stamp on title-p.; plates occas. sl. stained/ yellowed (1x w. sm. rusthole; 1x tear repaired w. paper on verso). Bindings sl. rubbed along extremities; joints of a few vols. starting. An attractive set.
= A complete set consists of 36 vols. containing 1055 plates. This lot compises: 1. Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, vols. 1-6 (1774-1779); 2. Histoire naturelle des Oiseaux, vols. 1-9 (1770-1783); 3. Histoire naturelle (...). Quadrupèdes, vols. 1-8 (1777-1789); 4. Histoire naturelle des Minéraux, vols. 1-5 (1783-1788); 5. Histoire naturelle des Quadrupèdes ovipares et des Serpens, vols. 1-2 (1788-1789). Nissen, ZBI 672.
82 2902 Zoology Buffon G L L de 
82 2902 Zoology Buffon G L L de 
- Both w. libr. stamp on title-p. = Nissen, ZBI 737. Fine plates of i.a. apes and monkeys.
82 2903 Zoology Buffon G L L de 
= I.a. cats, deer, rabbits and hares.