2101 - 2230 NATURAL HISTORY, MEDICINE, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY etc.
- Lacks textbooklet (?); plates trifle foxed. Stains/ rubbed spots on frontcover.
Beeftink, A. and Lijsten, R. Nederlandse Fruitsoorten. Arnhem, S. Gouda Quint and D. Brouwer en Zoon, (1942), (4) textp., 96 (of 144) col. plates by A. BEEFTINK w. text on verso, each ±24x16 cm., all w. two sm. holes in upper blank margin, in orig. giltlettered limp red board portfolio.
- A few plates sl. creased along edges. Corners portfolio sl. rubbed.
= Nissen Nachträge, 1193n (later ed.).
- Trifle foxed (incl. flaps of portfolio). Portfolio sl. discol. Otherwise fine.
= Nice, detailed plates showing one species of apple or pear per plate, their outside appearance and in cross-section. Not in Nissen.
= Facs. reprint of ed. Utr./ Leyden, 1696.
- Gilt on spine partly worn away. = Reprint of the ed. 1931.
AND 7 others, i.a. J.N. MILSUM and D.H. GRIST, Vegetable Gardening in Malaya (Kuala Lumpur, 1941, ills., orig. (sl. dam.) cl. Owner's entry) and G.A.C. HERKLOTS, Vegetables in South-East Asia (London, 1972, ills., orig. rexine w. (sl. dam.) dustwr., sm. 4to).
= Reprint of the privately published 1913 edition.
AND 2 others on trees: K.B. SANDVED, G.T. PRANCE and A.E. PRANCE, Bark (Portland, 1993, num. col. ills., orig. gilt cl. w. dustwr.) and C.S. SARGENT, Manual of the trees of North America (Cambridge, 1933, ills., orig. gilt cl.).
- First vol. trifle dampstained. Top of spine sl. dam. w. traces of repair; upper joint splitting. Fine set.
= Rare fruit encyclopedia, based on the work of J.C. Christ and enlarged with the main information from W. Forsijth "over eene nieuwe wijze van boomsnoeijen, en de door hem uitgevondene middelen om oude, kwijnende, of verwaarloosde boomen te genezen, en op nieuws te doen herleven." Pomona's Harvest p.239. Rare.
- Both vols. trifle foxed; 2nd vol. final few lvs. (incl. plates) sm. waterstain in blank margin. Bindings rubbed; frontcovers w. white stains.
= Not in Nissen BBI.
- The text vols. only, without the 4 plate volumes and without the portraits; all vols. library stamp on first free endpaper and/ or title-p.; occas. sl. foxed/ waterstained; first vol. first few lvs. sl. dam. Covers dam. Sold w.a.f.
- Lacks 1 plate (no.55); usual (sl.) foxing; partly loose(ning). Backstrip and corners worn.
= Nissen, BBI 2174; Pritzel 10366; Landwehr, Dutch Books w. Col. Plates 213. Fine chromolithographs.
- Pastedowns and endpapers sl. mouldy, otherwise contents fine. Binding worn/ dam.
= Nissen, BBI 2203; Landwehr, Dutch Books w. Col. Plates 2. Plates delicately handcoloured.
- Lacks plates 3, 4 and 28; final plate laid down on pastedown; bookblock and p. 5-8 loose(ning). Binding sl. rubbed/ stained.
= Cf. Nissen ZBI 588; Espenhorst (Engl.) p.805-808 ("richly illustrated", "huge international success"). Nice plates showing a large variety of animals, flowers and minerals, and two plates of the heads/ skulls of different human races and the human skeleton and internal body parts.
- Owner's entry on first free endpaper; occas. (sl.) foxed. Spine worn.
- Occas. trifle browned, otherwise internally fine. Top of spine dam.; covers sl. rubbed.
= Cf. Nissen, ZBI 144; DSB I, p.243/244. One of the first works to provide a simple system of classification of shells. Beautiful plates.
- Contents fine, w. only a few sm. imperfections: one plate blank outer margin restored; occas. a few foxed spots. Corners and covers partly rubbed; backstrips sl. dried.
= Rare complete set. Nissen, ZBI 2236; cf. Tenschert, Botanik & Zoologie 82: "Eines der frühesten Werke, die sich ausschließlich mit Conchylien befaßten (...). Die Anregung dazu gaben neben Knorrs eigener großer Naturalien-Sammlung die umfangreichen Kabinette von Müller, Houttuyn u.a." The beautifully coloured plates are by i.a. G.P. Trautner and A. Hoffer. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLVIII.
- Each vol. owner's entry and blindst. bookplate on title-p.; sl. foxed. All spines sl. rubbed; 2nd vol. rubbed spot on frontcover.
= I: Monocotyleae und Sympetalae der Dicotyleae; II: Dicotyleae, Choripetalae. Urticinae bis Frangulinae; III: Dicotyleae, Choripetalae. Cistinae bis Serpentariae.
AND 1 other, publ. by the same: G. KRÜSSMANN, Handbuch der Laubgehölze, Registerband (1977, 2nd ed., 1 (of 4) vols., orig. cl.).