2075 - 2373 NATURAL HISTORY, MEDICINE, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY etc.
- Lower section of table torn off, affecting text (repaired); 7 plates w. (sm.) repaired tear(s) in inner (blank) margin; a few lvs. sl. dampstained in upper outer corner.
= Nissen, ZBI 4052. All published. Very rare complete copy of the 1st edition.
- Lacks 33 plates, 2 engr. title-p. and several textlvs. Orig. 2 vols. erratically rebound in 1 vol. in the following order: (French text) Ordre premier (p.1-88); 48 (of 55) plates of vol. 1; (Dutch) Tweede deel, tweede orde (p.1-24); (French) Tome second, ordre second (p.1-24); (Latin) Pars secunda, ordo secundus (p.1-24); 24 (of 50) plates of vol. 2; Ordo primus (p.1-88); (Dutch) Eerste bende (p.1-82). Partly sl. waterst. in margin; 2 plates w. colours sl. smudged; occas. sl. (finger)soiled; a few lvs. w. sm. inkstains. Binding sl. worn/ stained.
= Landwehr, Dutch Books w. Col. Plates 201; Nissen, ZBI 4259; Horn-Schenkling 22791.
- The 2nd vol. (of 2) only. Spine-ends restored. = Nissen, ZBI 4259.
- Vol.1 and 2 publ. sales leaflet on upper pastedown. Vol.1 foot of spine dam.
= Hagen II, p.254; Horn & Schenkling, 23121; not in Nissen, ZBI. The first vol. w. owner's entry of amateur ornithologist George Dawson Rowley (1822-1878) on title-p.
- Lower hinge weak; trifle foxed. Spine and corners rubbed/ worn. Good copy.
= Nissen, ZBI 4484.
Snellen van Vollenhoven, S.C. Hemiptera Heteroptera Neerlandica. De inlandsche ware hemipteren (land- en waterwantsen). Ibid., idem, 1878, XII,368p., 22 lithogr. plates, contemp. gilt hmor. w. red mor. letterpiece.
- Binding worn/ dam. along extremities; upper joint splitting. Contents fine.
AND 8 others, i.a. G. MORGE (ed.), Abbildung der europaeischen zweiflügeligen Insecten, nach der Natur (Berlin, 1975-1976, 305 col. facs. plates, orig. cl. w. dustwr.) and S.C. SNELLEN VAN VOLLENHOVEN, Natuurlijke historie van Nederland (...) Overzigt der gelede dieren (Haarlem, 1859, lithogr. plates, woodengr. ills., contemp. gilt hcalf. Joints dam. on spine-ends).
- Spines sl. sunned; a few rubbed spots on covers. = DSB III, p. 539.
- Spines rubbed; vol. 2 and 4 lack lower corners frontcover.
= Vicaire III, p.709. Nice illustrations of ballooning pursuits, photographical instruments, electric clocks, fire-arms etc.
AND 3 others by the same.
- Spines rubbed.
= Poggendorff I, 746. Nice illustrations of production plants for soap, beer, wine, paper, rubber, porcelain etc.
AND 1 other by the same.
- Occas. (sl.) foxed.
Idem. Les grandes inventions scientifiques et industrielles chez les anciens et les modernes. Ibid., idem, 1863, 1st ed., (4),II,447,(1)p., num. (full-p.) woodengr. ills., contemp. blindst. hmor. w. gilt spine, a.e.g.
- Sl. foxed.
AND 3 others by the same, publ. by the same: Les Races Humaines (1872, 8 chromolithogr. plates, num. woodengr. ills.), Notions de Physiologie a l'usage de la Jeunesse et des Gens du Monde (1886, 1 chromolithogr. plate, num. woodengr. ills.) and Les Insectes (1867, num. woodengr. ills.).
- Lacks 25 plates. Occas. sl. yellowed; 4th vol. one plate w. large tear; one plate foxed. All vols. backstrip dam./ lacking.
= From Descriptions des Arts et Métiers. Contains Part 1, sections 1-3 and Part 2, sections 1-4. Nissen, ZBI 1186; Westwood/ Satchell p.82: "One of the finest works on fishing and the fisheries in any language."
- Spines sunned.
- Lacks A4. Final two leaves misbound; lower blank margin occas. sl. waterstained/ fingersoiled/ wormholed. Backstrip renewed.
- Owner's entry ("E. Laguers[?] 2044") on frontwr. Otherwise fine.
Bohr, N. Atomteori og naturbeskrivelse. 3 artikler med en indlidende oversigt. Copenhagen, Bianco Lunos, 1929, 1st ed., 76p., orig. wr.
- Wrappers browned along edges; backstrip sl. dam.
AND 1 other: IDEM, The penetration of atomic particles through matter (ibid., 1948, 1st ed., ills., orig. wr.)
- Both vols. w. small stamp on first free endpaper and title-p. Bindings sl. fingersoiled; backstrips sunned and w. traces of ticket at foot of spine.
- New endpapers; first few lvs. vaguely waterstained. A good/ fine copy.
= First edition of one of the most famous Dutch works on the planning and cultivation of country gardens, with much attention given to fruit- and kitchen-gardens. This was the work with which De la Court introduced successful ananas-growing in Europe, as a result of which the ananas became a popular fruit in Europe. Kat. Orn. Berlin 3406; Springer p.42-43; Oldenburger-Ebbers/ Stehouwer, Doc.18E., no. 40, p.6-7: "(...) tot nu toe vroegst bekende verhandeling over het aanleggen van tuinen in Holland. In dit werk getuigt Pieter de la Court van een oorspronkelijke visie op de vormgeving van tuinen, waarbij hij uitgaat van de Hollandse situatie (...)".
- Lacks 5 plates; new pastedowns. = Cf. Waller 844.
- Contemp. owner's entry on upper pastedown and 2nd blank; occas. sl. foxed.
= Waller 844.
- Trifle foxed. = DSB III, p.521-528.
AND 2 others by the same: Éloges historiques (Paris, n.d. (±1860), lithogr. frontisp. portrait, contemp. gilt and blindst. mor.) and a later edition of the first work (1864, orig. wr.).
- Joints spit(ting). = DSB V, p.386-393.
- Occas. trifle foxed.
= Originally publ. in 1720-1725. Bierens de Haan 1806; cf. Honeyman Coll. IV, 1541 (1st ed.); Poggendorff I, p.944. DSB V, p.510ff: "(...) The scientific reputation of 's Gravesande is enshrined in this book, which he constantly corrected and amplified in later editions. (...) his Mathematical Elements of Physics [the English translation published in 1720-1721], was easily the most influential book of its kind, at least before 1750. (...) The strength of his exposition was in his perfection of the method of justifying scientific truths either by self-evidence or by appeal to experimental verification in the manner already begun by Keill and Desaguliers, perfected by him through the design of many new instruments constructed by the instrument maker Jan van Musschenbroek (...)." Many of these instruments are illustrated on the plates.