2075 - 2373 NATURAL HISTORY, MEDICINE, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY etc.
78 2095 Architecture Blondel J F 
78 2095 Architecture Blondel J F 
78 2095 Architecture Blondel J F 
- Contemp. owner's entry in pen and ink on title-p. of plate vols.; contents w. minor defects. Bindings (sl.) rubbed; a few corners showing. All in all, a very good to fine series.
78 2096 Architecture Buchotte N 
78 2096 Architecture Buchotte N 
78 2096 Architecture Buchotte N 
- Contemp. owner's entry verso title: "Je suis a Adrien Joseph Bonnvie [partially crossed out] Arpenteur Gen:al des biens et Domaines de S:A: Mgr le Duc d'Aremberg la demeurant a Enghien (..) 1730". Binding heavily worn along extremities.
= Classic treatise on perspective drawing for architecture and military plans and for mapmaking. Contains information on materials, colours, pigments, crayons and instruments. Fowler 71.
78 2097 Architecture Derand F 
78 2097 Architecture Derand F 
78 2097 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).
78 2098 Architecture Jebb J 
78 2098 Architecture Jebb J 
78 2098 Architecture Jebb J 
- Contents loose. Lacks backstrip.
78 2099 Architecture Scamozzi V 
- Waterstained; fingersoiled and sl. yellowed; title-p. and 1st lvs. lower corner chipped. Vellum darkened/ soiled.
= Rare extra illustrated copy, containing more plates than most copies we could trace. Not in Fowler. Comprises i.a. "Beschrijvinge van de vijf colommen, uyt Palladio" and "beschrijvingen van de vijf colommen, uyt Vinjola".
78 2100 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.
78/2101 Astronomy Astronomische oefening verhandelende de Beginselen der sterreloopkunde in XIV plaatjes zeer nuttig voor Leerlingen en allerlei Beminnaaren der Sterreloop en Zeevaartkunde
78/2101 Astronomy Astronomische oefening verhandelende de Beginselen der sterreloopkunde in XIV plaatjes zeer nuttig voor Leerlingen en allerlei Beminnaaren der Sterreloop en Zeevaartkunde
78/2101 Astronomy Astronomische oefening verhandelende de Beginselen der sterreloopkunde in XIV plaatjes zeer nuttig voor Leerlingen en allerlei Beminnaaren der Sterreloop en Zeevaartkunde
78/2101 Astronomy Astronomische oefening verhandelende de Beginselen der sterreloopkunde in XIV plaatjes zeer nuttig voor Leerlingen en allerlei Beminnaaren der Sterreloop en Zeevaartkunde
- Without the second vol. (publ. 1781). A few lvs. at the end misbound; some lvs. sl. (dust)soiled; a good, untrimmed copy.
= BNK 509; Bierens de Haan 5606f (1st ed.). Based upon the works of J.L. Rost.
78 2102 Astronomy Laplace P S 
78 2102 Astronomy Laplace P S 
- Sl. foxed and yellowed/ browned; sm. stamp on htitle. Paper over board partly worn off.
= Houzeau/ Lancaster 8940; PMM 252; Bibliotheca Mechanica p.196f; Poggendorff I, p.1375f; DSB XV, p.273ff. "The two-volume work consists of five books. Book I begins with what any attentive observer may see if he will open his eyes to the spectacle of the heavens on a clear night with a view of the whole horizon. Book II (...) sets out the 'real' motions of planets, satellites, and comets and gives the dimensions of the solar system. Book III is a verbal précis of the laws of motion as understood in eighteenth-century rational mechanics, with special reference to astronomy and hydrostatics. In Book IV, Laplace in effect summarized his own work in gravitational mechanics. (...) Only Book V contains material that Laplace had not written up in technical form or presupposed. It gives an overview of the history of astronomy and concludes with the speculation since called the nebular hypothesis and another on the nature of the universe in outer space". (DSB XV, p.343).
78 2103 Astronomy Pot J J 
= With 2 typescript leaves SIGNED by J.J. Pot serving as manual and w. suggestions for improvements and inviting interested people to come up with improvements. The model was intended as "leermiddel, als aanschouwelijke voorstelling waar de planeten zich op een bepaald ogenblik bevinden en hoe snel of langzaam zij bewegen" (as an educational tool intended to provide a graphically comprehensible model showing where the planets of solar system are located at a certain point in time (future or past) and showing the relative pace at which they move). Apparently never published. The little that we know about J.J. Pot, shows that he was was born in 1908 and was a critical member of the Georgist international union (the movement that followed the ideas of Henry George: the belief that people should own the value they produce themselves, but that the economic value of land (including natural resources) should belong equally to all members of society). The "Planetoscoop" has obviously nothing to do with Georgism, but is the product of a man who was an independent thinker (see the interview with Pot on occasion of his 90th birthday on https://www.sdnl.nl/gv3k98-4.htm).
78 2104 Aviation Lindbergh C Lindbergh Spirit of St Louis New York Paris 
78 2104 Aviation Lindbergh C Lindbergh Spirit of St Louis New York Paris 
- Slightly faded and yellowed.
= Commemorating the first non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean, accomplished by Charles Lindbergh in his small aeroplane on the 20th and 21st of May, 1927, winning him the Orteig prize of $25.000.
AND 2 others on Lindbergh: a copy of The Raleigh Times (13-06-1927) headlining "New York welcomes Lindy. City's millions pay tribute to boy hero" and a photogr. postcard (signed by Lindbergh in the print).
78 2105 Aviation Zeppelins Cool W 
- Contents loose; plates fine. Covers sl. stained and browned; corners and spine-ends sl. worn.
= Nice and early volvelle plates of a Zeppelin and a Farman aeroplane.
78 2106 Bateson W 
- Ex library copy w. num. stamps crossed out. = DSB I, p.505-506.
Bragg, W. An Introduction to Crystal Analysis. London, G. Bell and Sons, 1928, VII,168p., ills., orig. cl. - AND 2 others.
78 2107 Beeckman I 
- Fine set.
= Isaac Beeckman (1588-1637), Dutch philosopher and scientist, student of Simon Stevin and friend of Rene Descartes.
78 2108 Boddaert P ed 
78 2108 Boddaert P ed 
- One plate w. sm. restored tear; one leaf portion torn off; one leaf w. large tear; a few textlvs. sl. frayed.
= Not in Nissen, ZBI. Based on the periodical Der Naturforscher (1774-1804), edited by J.E.I. Walch and J.C.D. Schreber. Cf. Nissen, ZBI 4709.
78 2109 Botany Berryais R le 
78 2109 Botany Berryais R le 
- Vol.2 a few lvs. browned; vol.3 first ±35 lvs. (sl.) wormholed in outer (blank) margin. Bindings w. some eroded spots; vol.1 and 3 leather worn off at upper corner front-/ backcover.
78 2110 Botany Collins M introd 
78 2110 Botany Collins M introd 
78 2111 Botany Duhamel du Monceau H L 
- Partly wormholed in inner blank margin. Lacks backwr. and backstrip. = Cf. Nissen, BBI 544.
78 2112 Botany Duhamel du Monceau H L 
78 2112 Botany Duhamel du Monceau H L 
78 2112 Botany Duhamel du Monceau H L 
78 2112 Botany Duhamel du Monceau H L 
- Title-vignettes and a few plates in later handcolouring. Covers sl. chafed. Otherwise a fine, complete set.
= Nissen, BBI 547. Many of the plates were printed from the blocks used for the large plates in Mattioli's herbal, New Kreuterbuch (1563). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LII.
78 2113 Botany Duhamel du Monceau H L 
78 2113 Botany Duhamel du Monceau H L 
78 2113 Botany Duhamel du Monceau H L 
78 2113 Botany Duhamel du Monceau H L 
- Lacks 5 plates (as often). Bindings w. a few sl. dam./ rubbed spots. Otherwise a very fine and clean set.
= Influential work on 18th-century (French) arboriculture and pomology, dealing i.a. with (several varieties of) pears, plums, apples, cherries, almonds, loquats and apricots; first published in 1768. Nissen, BBI 550; Stafleu 1546; Hunt 664; Pritzel 2466. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LIII.
78 2114 Botany Gabbema S A 
- Upper hinge sl. weak; annot. on lower pastedown. Top of spine lacks sm. portion/ worn; corners showing.
= Klaversma/ Hannema 545. Comprehensive description of all kinds of natural vegetation of the Northern part of Holland and Germany (especially Friesland). Very rare first edition. Cf. De Natuur, year 44, no.1: D. Koopmans-Forstmann, Een en ander over de "Friesche Lustgaarde" van Simon Abbes Gabbema (1925).