79 1745 Anatomy Loder J C 
79 1745 Anatomy Loder J C 
79 1745 Anatomy Loder J C 
- Foxed copy (esp. in vol.1), partly also affecting the plates; vol.1 one plate w. large (closed) tear (with browning from older tape); vol. 2: plate CXVI lacks fold. part; one plate frayed/ chipped and browned on fold. section; one plate cut trifle short in lower margin. Vol.1 lacks backstrip (remains partly loosely inserted) and frontcover; vol. 2 lacks lower half of backstrip; both vols. corners rubbed and paper over covers worn.
= Choulant p.151f; Wellcome III, p.535. Loder's aim was the compilation in one work of all the best representations then known in the different branches of anatomy, supplemented by representations of original preparations. In 32 plates the vascular system is represented in pink colouring.
79 1746 Anatomy Masse J P 
- Bookblock loose and broken; sl. foxed. Joints and spine-ends sl. rubbed.
= Rare and complete. Very detailed anatomical plates. Cf. Hirsch-H. IV, p.161f.
79 1747 Anatomy Morgagni J B 
79 1747 Anatomy Morgagni J B 
- 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 (...). " SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LVII.
79 1748 Anatomy Richter Th 
79 1748 Anatomy Richter Th 
79 1748 Anatomy Richter Th 
79 1748 Anatomy Richter Th 
- Without letterpress (h)title, preface and index pages. Both vols. occas. sl. foxed/ fingersoiled; vol. 1 upper hinge broken; 1 textleaf loose; final lvs. sl. waterst.; vol. 2 first quires loose; (sl.) waterst. throughout (only affecting margins of final plates). Poor bindings: worn; vol. 1 joints splitting; vol. 2 lacks backstrip; covers loose.
= Rare copy with 145 neatly HANDCOLOURED plates (most handcol. copies that we traced had 96 plates). Bibl. Med. Neerl. 86; not in Choulant, Frank, Waller. On the translator, cf. Hirsch II, p.476.
79 1749 Anatomy Ruysch F 
79 1749 Anatomy Ruysch F 
79 1749 Anatomy Ruysch F 
- Lacks two plates (from the 1st and 3rd part); sl. browned/ yellowed; library stamp on title; hinges broken but holding well on cords. Paper ticket at foot of spine; binding chafed.
= Provenance: from the collection of G.A. Lindeboom w. his bookplate on upper pastedown. In total 10 parts were published with 42 plates by C. Huijberts, which include three large fold. plates which are striking anatomical still-lifes. BMN II, p.98; Wellcome IV, p.599; Hagelin p.96ff; DSB 12, p.41. "Ruysch' "cabinet" or museum was described as a perfect necropolis, all the inhebitants of which were asleep and ready to speak as soon as they were reawakened", and attracted many visitors. (...) His capacity for keen observation and his fabulous skill in injection made him the founder of eighteenth century anatomy. The illustrations are of a very high artistic merit and could almost be regarded as being precursors of surrealist art (...)" (Hagelin). "He gave private courses in anatomy to foreign students and devoted himself throughout his life to making anatomical preparations. (...) Ruysch drew on his art not only for strict medical science but also for flights of fancy. He often made up preparations in a rather romantic, dramatic way. He prepared the corpse of a child as if it were alive so that Peter the Great was inclined to kiss it. (...) Ruysch displayed these preparations in several small rented houses in Amsterdam and this "cabinet" became a major attraction for foreign visitors. (...) In 1715 he announced the sale of his collection. But no buyers presented themselves before 1717, when Peter the Great bought it for 30.000 guilders. It was carefully packed and transported by boat to Russia. The tale that the collection was destroyed by sailers drinking the embalming fluid seems not to be true, or at least only partly so." (DSB).
79 1750 Anatomy Vesalius A 
79 1750 Anatomy Vesalius A 
79 1750 Anatomy Vesalius A 
79 1750 Anatomy Vesalius A 
79 1750 Anatomy Vesalius A 
- Lacks 1 double-p. plate (m3 or "Venarum et item arteriarum omnium integra absoluta que delineatio" but second unpaginated m3 present) and 1 full-p. ill. (leaf Q5, supplied in facsimilé); sm. tear in upper margin fold. plate; p.215-216 w. sm. dam. spot in text and just touching the sm. woodcut ill.; somewhat damp- and waterstained; occas. inner margins strengthened w. paper strip; upper hinge restored w. thin japanese; blank margins of woodcut title and portrait strengthened w. Japanese; library stamp on title (and later ms "21492" in lower blank margin) and recto portrait. Lacks ties.
= The editio princeps of the anotomical masterpiece by A. van Wesel or A. Vesalius. Adams V603; Durling 4577; Horblit 98; Cushing VI.A-1; Choulant p.45f; PMM 71: "The Fabrica, a handsomely printed folio, is remarkable for its series of magnificent plates, which set new technical standards of anatomical illustration, and indeed of book illustration in general. (...) Vesalius's was the most splendid and the most comprehensive of a large number of anatomical treatises of the sixteenth century. (...) No other work of the sixteenth century equals it, though many share its spirit of anatomical enquiry. It was translated, reissued, copies and plagiarized over and over again and its illustrations were used or copied in other medical works until the end of the eighteenth century". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LVIII.
= Facs. reprint of the ed. Basel, 1543.
Tulp, N. Geneesinsighten/ Geneesinzichten. Ed. C.G.L. Apeldoorn and T. Beijer. Amst., Six Art, 1991, 3 vols., orig. gilt unif. rexine/ wr., kept in orig. board slipcase, 4to.
79 1752 Anatomy Vesalius A 
79 1752 Anatomy Vesalius A 
79 1752 Anatomy Vesalius A 
- Library stamps scattered throughout; frontisp. lacks outer portion; foxed/ yellowed/ browned/ waterstained throughout; 2nd vol. first few lvs. w. wormhole; plates occas. sl. mouldy; 3 plates w. large (repaired) tears (scotch tape shining through). Both vols. lack 2nd letterpiece; 2nd vol. chipped at foot of spine; binding worn along extremities.
= Very rare complete copy. Bibliotheca Walleriana 9917; Cushing VI.D-8; Hirsch-H. VI, p.97; Osler 579; Choulant p.183; BMN I, p.63; Lindeboom p.185; Norman Library 2143: "The only collected edition of Vesalius' works, issued by Boerhaave (...) and Albinus (...), with copperplate reproductions of the Vesalian woodblocks by Jan Wandelaar (...). The editors added explanations of Vesalius's sixteenth-century anatomical nomenclature for their eighteenth-century readers, and prefaced the first volume with a biography of Vesalius, which Lindeboom has tentatively attributed to Boerhaave (...)." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LVIII.
79 1753 Anatomy Vesalius A Cushing H 
- Bookplate of G. Jefferson on upper pastedown. = Historical Library/ Yale medical library no.6.
AND 8 others on A. Vesalius, i.a. The Four Hundredth Anniversary Celebration of the De Humani Corporis Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius (ibid., 1943, orig. hcl., 4to).
79 1754 Architecture d'Aviler C A 
- Old owner's entries on title-p. blotted out w. ink; fingersoiled; bookblock split(ting); a few lvs./ quires loose. Binding worn and dam.
= Cf. Millard 14 and 15 (other editions).
79 1755 Architecture Derand F 
79 1755 Architecture Derand F 
79 1755 Architecture Derand F 
- Sl. mouldy throughout; several plates margins restored.
= Cf. Fowler 101 and Millard 60 (1st ed. of the same year with 126 plates). "The book would become the standard work on stereotomy throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It achieved two new editions in 1743 and 1755, and was listed in the inventories of many eighteenth-century French collections of architectural books." (Millard).
79 1756 Architecture Muller S Fz 
- Wrapper frayed/ dam.
79 1757 Architecture Rondelet J 
79 1757 Architecture Rondelet J 
79 1757 Architecture Rondelet J 
79 1757 Architecture Rondelet J 
- Without the text vols. Title and htitle w. closed vertical tear; first / final plates sl. foxed. Binding (sl.) worn/ dam. along extremities.
= Cf. Graesse VI, p.155 (10th ed.).
Blouet, G.A. Traité théorique et pratique de l'art de bâtir. Supplément. Atlas. Liege, D. Avanzo & Cie., n.d. (1848), 105 steelengr. plates, contemp. hcalf, large folio.
- Final 2 plates sl. dam. (repaired/ strengthened w. paper); final 35 plates (sl.) waterstained in blank margins; occas. (sl.) foxed. Spine/ corners sl. worn/ rubbed.
= One of 2 atlas vols. of G.A. Blouet's supplement to architect Jean Rondelet's Traité. Cf. Graesse VI, p.155-156 (other eds.).
79 1758 Architecture Schmidt O 
79 1758 Architecture Schmidt O 
- Occas. trifle foxed.
79 1759 Architecture Tieleman van der Horst 
79 1759 Architecture Tieleman van der Horst 
- Without vol.2. Textlvs. (sl.) waterstained in outer blank margin; 7 plates sl. mouldstained in upper corner. Spine-ends dam.
= The finest Dutch book on the construction of bridges and sluices. The final 6 plates concern "De nieuwe duyker sluys tot Lutje Schardam, of anders genaamt den Horn". Bierens de Haan 4836. From the collection of Bob Luza w. his bookplate on upper pastedown. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LIX.
79 1760 Architecture Tieleman van der Horst 
- As often without the small 4to textbooklet. First four leaves a few sm. dents/ tiny holes in the plate; a few vague and unobtrusive sm. stains in margin; occas. sl. browned on central fold; owner's entries on first free endpaper. Binding worn.
= Bierens de Haan 4839A; Kat. Orn. Berlin 2253. Detailed plates of staircases, including highly decorated banisters and skylights.
79 1761 Architecture Vingboons P 
- Mediocre copy: lacks one plate; title-p. heavily stained/ soiled; many plates w. closed tears, restorations etc.; waterst. and dustsoiled. Sold w.a.f.
= Collation conform several copies traced by us (i.a. sold in our rooms), page 4 ending with "Hier na volgd het Tweede Deel" and a custode not matching the first word of the following page. K. Ottenheym, Philips Vingboons (1607-1678) p.153 passim and p.180.
79 1762 Astronomy Guillemin A 
79 1762 Astronomy Guillemin A 
79 1762 Astronomy Guillemin A 
79 1762 Astronomy Guillemin A 
- Occas. sl. foxed; first textleaf w. some offsetting. Extremities sl. rubbed. Good copy.
= Houzeau/ Lancaster 9126.
Kaiser, F. De sterrenhemel. Amst., C.G. Sulpke, 1847-1853, 2nd ed., 2 vols., (4),XV,(1),499; (4),XXVIII,672,(3)p., 2 large fold. steelengr. celestial maps, 5 steelengr. plates (1 fold.), contemp. unif. gilt red hmor.
- Some foxing. Extremities sl. rubbed. = Houzeau/ Lancaster 9045.
79 1763 Astronomy Verbiest F 
79 1763 Astronomy Verbiest F 
= A fine scale model of one of the six new instruments that Verbiest designed for the Beijing Imperial Astronomy Observatory, when he had become head of the observatory in 1673. The original ecliptic armilla is 6 feet in diameter. This model has a diameter of 19,5 cm.
79 1764 Berryat J 
79 1764 Berryat J 
- Library stamp on title-p. All bindings (sl.) worn/ rubbed along extremities.
= Interesting work on human and animal biology and botany, with curious plates of i.a. numerous sorts of malformations. Brunet I, p.813; Poggendorf I, p.164.