2075 - 2373 NATURAL HISTORY, MEDICINE, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY etc.
- Lvs. loose(ning); traces of sellotape on first and final leaf; first 2 lvs. sl. frayed.
AND a later edition of the same ordinance: Ordonnantie op de Jacht van het Wildt/ Ordonnantie op 't Visschen. Gron., G. Elama, 1738/ 1739, 2 vols., 24; 10p., plain wr./ frontwr. (sl. stained).
- Bookplates on upper pastedown (Harry Cecil Clifton) and first free endpaper. Most leaves fingersoiled in lower outer corner; occas. (sl.) stained (affecting plates); one quire (p.433-440) browned and waterstained; 2 quires (p.457-464 and p.473-480) sl. waterstained mainly in margins; one plate sl. stained.
= Souhart p.395; Harting 277 (p.150); Nissen ZBI, 3273; cf. Schwerdt II, p.123 (misprint of page number 337 not in our copy): "One of the most noted Italian books on hunting".
- Some lvs. unopened/ sl. stained. Binding sl. worn/ stained. = Lindner p.825; Dekkers p.142.
Swaen, A.E.H. (ed.). Jacht-bedryff. Naar het handschrift in de Koninklijke Bibliotheek te 's-Gravenhage. Leyden, Brill, 1948, 1st ed., XV,(1),120p., 9 facs. plates, orig. clothbacked boards, sm. folio.
- Endpapers and binding sl. foxed; cl. trifle rubbed. Otherwise a fine copy.
Idem. De valk in de iconographie. Maastr., Gebrs. Van Aelst, 1926, 35p., 11 ills., later gilt hcl.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; title-p. trifle foxed.
= Rare publication in elegant binding by "Nanna Grönvalls Eftr. Gunnar Lindberg Bokbinderi, Malmö".
AND 1 other similar.
- From the library of Harry Cecil Clifton (bookplate on upper pastedown); modern bookplate on first free endpaper. Upper joint wormholed at top of spine; corners worn; covers foxed.
= Schwerdt IV, p.92; Wood p.519; Zimmer p.623. Rare.
- (Sl.) foxed throughout. Backstrip cracked.
= Lindner 11.2505.01: "Noch immer unentbehrliches Hilfsmittel zum Studium der Geschichte der Jagd in den Niederlanden." Souhart p.482.
- Without vol. 1 of the 1st series and vol. 8 of the 2nd series; lacks 11 plates; occas. yellowed/ (sl.) waterst. Two vols. lack one letterpiece.
= With the continuation of Chomel by De Chalmot. Typical 18th century handbook/ encyclopedia for the "complete landlord", covering all aspects of managing a mansion during the Ancien Regime. Deals i.a. with breeding of all kinds of animals (for instance bees, pigeons, silkworms); agriculture, viniculture etc.; handicrafts, gardening, banking etc. etc. But also on secrets how to live to an old age, the making of artificial stones, oil- and waterpainting. A mine of contemporary knowledge. Thiébaud p.204 (note) and p.203f (on the French edition).
- Quires loose; partly waterstained..
= Springer p.28-29; Landwehr, Ned. Kookboek 19,22. Charming, frequently reprinted work on gardening, garden architecture, husbandry, veterinary medicine, beekeeping and cooking. The first part on garden-architecture was written by Jan van der Groen, the gardener of the Prince of Orange. The other parts were written by Pieter Nylandt, wellknown Amsterdam physician and pharmacist. The second part deals with the work that has to be done each month in the garden. The third part is devoted to (veterinary) home-medicine, beekeeping and cooking, with 3 fine half-page title-engravings. Rare edition.
- Title-p. and first textp. corner dam. (repaired); a few p. sl. wormholed in blank margin; occas. sl. foxed/ browned. Good copy.
= Bierens de Haan 2239; Poggendorff I, 1165; DSB VI, p.612, 22; Houzeau-Lancaster I, 3429. Deals i.a. with the grinding of lenses, dioptrics, geometrics, centrifugal forces, gravity and light.
- Backstrip dam. spot (nibbled by rodents); covers sl. soiled. Good/ fine interior condition.
= Wood 364; Engelmann 440; Dean I, 495. The first edition, opposite Latin/ French text.
- Ticket on upper pastedown; catalogue entry on verso htitle.
Beauchainais, A. de. Le Buffon illustré à l'usage de la jeunesse. Contenant une description très-complète des mammifères, oiseaux, poissons, reptiles, insectes et coquilles. Paris, T. Lefèvre, n.d., (4),380p., 16 woodengr. plates and num. woodengr. ills., orig. gilt and blindst. hmor., a.e.g, large 8vo.
- Binding rubbed.
AND 8 others, i.a. P. NIEDIECK, Mes Chasses dans les cinq parties du monde (ibid., 1907, 206 (photogr.) ills., orig. gilt cl. Bookblock shaken) and C.G. DAHL, Pomologi. I. Äpplen och Päron (Stockholm, 1929, 26 col. double-p. lithogr. plates, orig. gilt hmor, large 8vo).
- Sl. foxed/ browned (incl. plates and wr.). Inside of portfolio sl. dam.
= Deluxe edition. Collection of articles concerning physics with contributions by i.a. A. EINSTEIN: Theoretische Atimistik (p.251-263) and Die Relativitätstheorie (p.706-713). Weil 70 and 71; M. PLANCK: Das Prinzip des kleinsten Wirkung (p.692-702) and Verhältnis der Theorien zueinander (p.732-737) and H.A. LORENTZ: Die Maxwellsche Theorie und die Elektronentheorie (p.311-333).
- Hinges broken; occas. sl. foxed. Sl. rubbed. = Nissen, ZBI 2053; Horn-Schenkling 10965.
- Covers sl. discoloured. Otherwise a fine and clean copy. = Nissen, ZBI 2049; Horn-Schenkling 23753.
- Both vols. occas. trifle foxed; first and final lvs. w. trifle offsetting. A fine set.
= An influential work of Victorian natural history on moths, with nicely handcol. plates, which Humphreys describes in the preface: "The British Moths are not perhaps so gaily coloured as their more gaudy rivals, the butterflies; but when we consider the splendid sphinges, or twilight fliers, by which they are linked to the day-flying butterflies, they can scarcely be deemed less beautiful. Indeed, in the larva stage, many moths surpass in their wonderful raiment of velvet and satin, of ermine and sable, jewelled over with gold and silver studs of various metallic tints, anything which the butterfly division can boast; and the careful portraiture of these truly magnificent caterpillars will form a principal feature in the present work." (p.1). Nissen, ZBI 2050; Horn-Schenkling 23799.
- Occas. w. sm. receding light brown stain in lower outer margin; plates in fine condition (w. erasable pencil annots.). Joints professionally restored.
= Large paper copy. The 5th, supplementary vol. to P. CRAMER's De uitlandsche kapellen voorkomende in de drie waereld-deelen Asia, Africa en America (Amst./ Utr., 1779-1782, 4 vols., 400 engr. plates). For this influential, gorgeously coloured entomological work (incl. this vol. on Surinamese caterpillars and pupae), the personal collections of i.a. William V, Prince of Orange, and Joan Raye were studied. Nissen, ZBI 985; Horn-Schenkling 21556; Landwehr, Dutch Books w. Col. Plates 53. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LIX.
- Owner's entry/ stamp on first blank/ verso first plate; first/ final few lvs. (sl.) foxed. Backcover sm. portion of wr. torn off.
AND 8 others similar, i.a. P.C.T. SNELLEN, De vlinders van Nederland (The Hague, 1867, 4 lithogr. plates, contemp. giltlettered hmor. Binding sl. rubbed/ worn) and 4 vols. by R. SOUTH, all orig. hardcovers (2x w. dustwr.), i.a. The Butterflies of the British Isles (1906) and The Caterpillars of the British Butterflies (1944).
- Corners showing. = Warranted by the author on verso title-p.
- Fine copy. From the library of Bob Luza with his bookplate on first free endpaper; other bookplate on upper pastedown.
= Ziegenfuß II, p.95; DSB VIII, p.605: "The most comprehensive analytical and systematic treatment of Mach's philosophical views, the work is seldom read and almost never cited by historians of science."