- Fine copy.
= Attractive plates, the first 10 plates of fungi and mushrooms, the others of botanical nature. Nissen, BBI 673 (Nachträge).
- Poor copy, lacks title-p and 1 plate (plates are numbered up to 88, but no.39, 48 and 77 were never present in this edition); soiled; some lvs. and plates w. large waterstain; some margins and sm. holes professionally repaired/ strengthened. Rebacked w. modern leather. Sold w.a.f.
= Apart from the lacking plate (plate no. 85), plates as called for in binder's instruction at the end (plate-numbering skips 3 plates), but with plate no. 82 and 83 (not listed in binder's instruction). First edition; Honeyman 1560; Kat. Orn. Berl. 1784; Poggendorff I, 957.
- Endpapers sl. mouldstained; occas. sl. foxed. Edges and spine-ends (sl.) worn. = Poggendorff III, p.563.
Flammarion, C. l'Atmosphère. Description des grands phénomènes de la nature. Ibid., idem, 1873, 2nd ed., (4),VII,(1),819,(1)p., 15 chromolithogr. plates, 228 woodengr. ills., contemp. red hmor., gilt spine, a.e.g., large 8vo.
- Endpapers sl. mouldstained; (sl.) foxed. Lower joint starting; corners showing. = Poggendorff III, p.449.
Thomson, C.W. Les abîmes de la mer. Récits des expéditions de draguage des vaisseaux de S.M. le Porcupine & le Lightning pendant les étés de 1868, 1869 & 1870. French transl. L. Lortet. Ibid., idem, 1875, 1st French ed., XXVII,(1),454p., 8 double-p. (chromo)lithogr. maps, 84 woodengr. ills., contemp. red hmor., gilt spine, a.e.g., large 8vo.
- Sl. foxed. Spine-ends sl. worn; corners showing. = Poggendorff III, p.1344 (English eds.).
AND 3 others, incl. A. GUILLEMIN, Les applications de la physique (ibid., 1874, contemp. gilt red hmor., large 8vo).
- Partly (sl.) waterst.; upper hinge broken. Spine repaired/ strengthened w. paper/ tape; wrs. sl. soiled.
= Rare. "Vierde, herziene druk van G.J. van de Well - De dynamo".
Sijthoff's Beweegbare Modellen van Hedendaagsche Techniek. Draaistroommotor met kooianker. Leyden, A.W. Sijthoff, n.d. (±1900), col. lithogr. layered model w. accomp. descriptive text loose in orig. wr., folio.
- (Sl.) waterst. Wrs. sl. frayed.
- One plate lacks part of 1 layer. Covers sl. worn/ rubbed; 1 vol. backstrip almost loose.
= Nice multi-layered plates of i.a. "Adler-Motorwagen", "Heissdampf-Lokomotive", "Etrich-Rumpler-Flugzeug", "Fiat-Automobil", "70 pferdiger Diesel-Motor", "80 PS-Flugzeug-Sternmotor" and "Hochdruck-Ölmaschine".
AND a duplicate of 1 vol.
- Waterstain in outer margin. Spine splitting, paper over spine worn away.
- Occas. sl. foxed/ browned; offsetting on endpapers from turn-ins. Lower joint splitting near foot of spine; calf on backcover partly worn.
= I.a. articles on mathematics and geometry, on an illness that affects the autumn crocus, on the movement of Saturnus (by Cassini), on ankylose, on mushrooms, on wool and fur eating insects and on the testes and musk of the civet.
- Without the engr. title-p. and the 3 portraits listed in Mennessier de la Lance, but incl. 6 full-p. plates of bits (instead of 6 in reduced size on 3 plates that Mennessier de la Lance lists for his edition); skips (lacks?) plate 50; letterpress title-p. doubled; one plate sm. printing flaw in lower right corner; textpages partly browned (incl. first 22 pages); 14 plates foxed/ (sl.) browned.
= Numbering of the plates: 1-15, 1 unnumb. ("Dernière figure de la première partie"), 16-49, 51-56. Contains 2 repeated plates (plate 27 = 30 and plate 10 = 32, both explicitly mentioning in the engr. that the plates serve two different parts of the work) and 1 plate (no.23) that functions both as plate 23 and 29; Mennessier de La Lance II, p.330. Very attractive plates. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXV.
- Three full-p. plates loosely inserted (blank margins sl. trimmed due to former framing); 3 full-p. plates foxed in image (3x only slightly), the other plates foxed in blank margins only. Corners and upper joint worn (lower joint rubbed). A good copy with less foxing than usual.
= Thiébaud 21; Souhart p.13; Schwerdt I, 31: "A magnificent book which illustrates every form of sport as practised by the Hungarian nobility in this unrivalled corner of Europe." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIV.
- Endpapers and first/ final 2 lvs. sl. dam.; occas. trifle stained. Binding sl. worn along edges; spine rubbed; joints splitting at top of spine.
= Thiébaud p.134 (note); Souhart p.78; Schwerdt I, p.86.
- Occas. sl./ trifle stained (only affecting 1 ill.). Bindings sl. worn along edges; vol. 1 sl. warped. Otherwise a fine and complete set, containing the 4th ed. of vol. 1 and the 2nd ed. of vol. 2.
= Rare work on hunting with num. nice woodcuts depicting birds and how to catch hem. Souhart p.302; Thiébaud p.594; Mouchon p.1180; Schwerdt I, p.315.
= 1. Die Jagd der Vorzeit; 2. Die Jagd im frühen Mittelalter.
AND 4 others, i.a. A. GILLE, Anleitung zum Fangen des Raubzeuges (Liegnitz, Haynauer Raubtierfallen-Fabrik, 1893, 4th enl. ed., ills., contemp. hcl.).
- Bookplate on upper pastedown. Backwr. sl. creased in lower outer corner. Otherwise fine.
= Schwerdt II, p.249.
- Plates occas. (sl.) foxed.
= Rare. Doc. Blad 18e eeuw no.40 (1978) p.8; Waller 360 (1769, 2nd ed.).
- Lid damaged. = Type 96-18800.
- Covers sl. chafed and w. acid biting; corners showing. Internally fine.
= BMN I, p.63; Hirsch III, p.436-437; Bibl. Walleriana 13832; Wellcome III, p.375. "Ausser der genannten Rede ist vor Allem zu nennen: "Perspiratio dicta Hippocrates" (Leyden 1738), worin er von der unmerklichen Wasserverdunstung durch die Haut berichtet (...)." (Hirsch). Rare.
- A few vols. dustwr. w. sm. imperfections (sl. frayed, sl. stained/ fingersoiled or sl. yellowed). Otherwise fine.
= A complete set consists of 22 parts in 26 vols.
- Sl. foxed/ yellowed; first lvs. loose. Binding sl. rubbed/ worn at extremities.
= Work orig. published in 25 instalments (1880-1882); frontwr. of 10th instalment pres. With etched plates of i.a. a Cape lion, Bornean orangutan, Russian brown bear, Indian elephant and Romanian buffalo. Not in Nissen.
- Some sl. foxing (also on bindings). = The first 3 vols. of the series cover the period 1673-1683.