2075 - 2373 NATURAL HISTORY, MEDICINE, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY etc.
= Showing i.a. horses, cows, sheep and pigs.
Floericke, K. Vogelbuch. Gemeinverständliche Naturgeschichte der mitteleuropäischen Vogelwelt. Stuttg./Wiesbaden, Franckh, 1922, 2nd ed., 496p., portr., 54 col. lithogr. plates, ills., orig. clothbacked dec. boards, 4to. - AND 5 others in 7 vols., i.a. C. HENNICKE, Die Raubvögel Mitteleuropas (Halle, n.d., 61 (col.) lithogr. plates loose in rear pocket, orig. cl. w. dustwr.).
- Fourth plate vol. lacks 1 plate. Contents in very fine, untrimmed condition.
= Plate vols.: vol. 1: "Cartier" (how to make playing cards), alphabets, "Canons", "Cartonnier", "Cidre" and "Cuisinier, Patissier, Traiteur, Rotiseur"; vol. 2: "Diamantair, Lapidaire, Metteur-en-oeuvre", "Écrivain, Art d'écrire", "Fayencerie", "Filets de Pêche et de Chasse", "Glaciere, Glace artificielle", "Globes", "Gravure en Lettres, Topographie, Géographie & Musique" and "Horlogerie"; vol. 3: "Horlogerie", "Imprimerie", "Instruments de Musique", "Luthier", "Marbrerie", "Marbreur de Papier", "Menuisier en Meubles", "Menuisier en Voitures" and "Meunier"; vol. 4: such as the fabrication of mozaics, gold- and silversmiths, paper, porcelain, gunpowder and tobacco and pipes.
- A few plates w. restorations (1x w. sl. loss of image).
= Plates showing i.a. fish, butterflies, shells, spiders, plants and minerals. Incl. 2 large fold. plates of a louse in close-up.
- Double-p. plates are counted as 2 plates. Lacks 4 plates (incl. 1 double-p.) and a few textp. (p.17ff of the anatomy section; 5 plates loosely added from another copy, incl. 2 dupl.). Joints splitting; spine-ends dam.; corners showing.
= PMM 200; Graesse II, p.389. The plates to the famous Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers, first published 1751-1765, covering all aspects of science, industries and arts. Contains plates of i.a. the following series: "Fabrique de tabac", "Sucrerie & affinage", "Anatomie", "Antiquités", "Architecture", "Arquebusier", "Art Militaire" and "Artificier".
- Trifle foxed. Spine-ends worn/ sl. dam.; corners showing. = Thiébaud p.201; Souhart p.626.
AND 3 others, incl. 2 duplicates and P. MÉGNIN, Le Chien. Histoire, hygiène, médecine (ibid., 1883, 2nd ed., 73 woodengr. ills., contemp. treecalf w. gilt spine, large 8vo).
- Spines sl. sunned.
= Pierre Duhem is regarded as having created the field of the history of medieval science. During his research into the origins of statics he encountered medieval scientists, such as Nicole Oresme, whom he consequently regarded as the founders of modern science in opposition to the tendency of the time to regard the Medieval times as dark and unfruitful. DSB IV, p. 225-233: "Duhem was that rare, not to say unique, scientist whose contributions to the philosophy of science, the historiography of science, and science itself (in thermodynamics, hydrodynamics, elasticity, and physical chemistry) were of profound importance on a fully professional level in all three disciplines."
= Provenance: all from the "Physisch Kabinet" Leyden. All publised in Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft, year 16, 17 and 18. Also contains all other issues of the same year. Weil 67; 73 and 85. Year 14 also including the paper "Über Zusammenstöfse zwischen Elektronen und den Molekülen des Quecksilberdampfes und die Ionisierungsspannung desselben" by J. FRANCK and G. HERTZ and the first appearance of the famous Franck-Hertz Experiment.
AND 29 years in 15 vols. of the same periodical between 1912 and 1942.
- All vols. w. library stamps on prelim. lvs. Some vols. cloth over spine worn/ sl. dam.; a few vols. paper tickets partly worn off.
= Fine set: 1. The early years, 1879-1902; 2. The Swiss years: writings, 1900-1909; 3. The Swiss years: writings, 1909-1911; 4. The Swiss years: writings, 1912-1914; 5. The Swiss years: correspondence, 1902-1914; 6. The Berlin years: writings, 1914-1917; 7. The Berlin years: writings, 1918-1921; 8A. The Berlin years: correspondence, 1914-1917; 8B. The Berlin years: correspondence, 1918; 9. The Berlin years: correspondence, January 1919-april 1920.
= Published in Annalen der Physik und Chemie, Band 11, Vierte Folge. Also contains all other issues of the same year. Weil 4.
Idem. Eine neue Bestimmung der Moleküldimensionen. Ibid., idem, 1905, p.289-306, contemp. giltlettered hcalf. - BOUND WITH: Idem. Zur Theorie der Brownschen Bewegung. Ibid., idem, 1905, p.371-381.
= Published in Annalen der Physik und Chemie, Band 19, Vierte Folge. Also contains all other issues of the same year. Weil 7 and 11.
Idem. Die Plancksche Theorie der Strahlung und die Theorie der specifischen Wärme. Ibid., idem, 1907, p.180-190, contemp. giltletterd hcalf. - BOUND WITH: Idem. Über die Gültigkeitsgrenze des Satzes vom thermodynamischen Gleichgewicht und über die Möglichkeit einer neuen Bestimmung der Elementarquanta. Ibid., idem, 1907, p.569-572.
= Published in Annalen der Physik und Chemie, Band 22, Vierte Folge. Also contains all other issues of the same year. Weil 15 and 16.
Idem. Bemerkung zu dem Gesetz von Eötvös. Ibid., idem, 1911, p.165-169, contemp. clothbacked boards. - BOUND WITH: Idem. Eine Beziehung zwischen dem elastischen Verhalten und der spezifischen Wärme bei festen Körpern mit einatomigen Molekül. Ibid., idem, 1911, p.170-174.
= Published in Annalen der Physik und Chemie, Band 34, Vierte Folge. Also contains all other issues of the same year. Weil 38 and 39. Possibly a publisher's collection (?) with the Metzger & Wittig in Leipzig stamp below index.
AND 3 other vols. of Annalen der Physik und Chemie, years 1887, 1888 and 1895, containing articles by i.a. M. PLANCK and G. HERTZ.
- Owner's stamp of A.W.H. van Herk on title-p. and frontcover; owner's entry of "H. Dulfer" in pen and ink on title-p.; covers sl. browned and w. sm. tear; backstrip restored.
= First edition. Weil 124; Norman 697.
- Ex library copy w. (cancellation) stamps throughout; lacking the advert. pages. Both vols. upper cover almost loose (both holding on 1 cord); both vols. w. sm. paper ticket at foot of spine; 1 vol. top of spine loose; both vols. calf sl. chafed.
= Cf. Norman Library 1466; Poggendorff III, p.889; DSB IX, p.198ff.
- Backstrips sunned; extremities sl. worn.
- First ±80 (incl. frontisp.) and last 20 lvs. sl. waterst./ partly sl. wormholed in (blank) margin(s); 4 lvs. stained; owner's entry on 2nd blank. Spine-ends/ corners professionally restored. Good copy.
= Nissen, ZBI 66; Hagen p.7; cf. Horn & Schenkling 126. The woodcuts show various types of insects, beehives and ants' nests, starfish and a seahorse. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LV.
- Occas. sl. foxed; 2 plates repaired w. cl. tape on verso; plates (as usual) w. sl. offsetting on opposite leaf; contents otherwise fine. Covers sl. rubbed; joints splitting/ starting at top of spine; backstrip sl. faded/ dam.
= Although there is no substantial biographical material on the English naturalist James Barbut (†1791), he "is best known for [this] companion publication on the Linnaean genera of insects that was gorgeously illustrated" (Damkaer I, 97). With the engraved English title as frontispiece. Nissen, ZBI 220; Horn-Schenkling 757. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LV.
- Sl. waterstained in upper (blank) margin throughout. Rebound w. new endpapers.
= Nissen, ZBI 407; Hagen p.56; Horn & Schenkling 1610.
- Both vols. w. library stamp on title-p.; vol. 2 quire "I" misbound; plates sl. waterstained in margin. Bindings sl. rubbed/ worn; spine-ends chipped; ticket on spine; joints starting/ splitting; vol. 2 lacks letterpiece.
= A collection of observations regarding insects, esp. aphids and freshwater worms, by the Genevan naturalist Charles Bonnet (1720-1793). One table shows Bonnet's (hierarchical) chain of being, starting with humans, quadrupeds, birds and fish, and ending with metals, sulfurs, the four elements and "matières plus subtiles". Nissen, ZBI 462; Horn-Schenkling 1966.
- Both vols. occas. sl. foxed; bookplate on upper pastedown. Sl. worn at edges; vol. 2 upper joint starting.
= Nissen, ZBI 790.
Everts, E. Coleoptera Neerlandica. De schildvleugelige insecten van Nederland en het aangrenzend gebied. The Hague, M. Nijhoff, 1898-1903, 2 (of 3) vols., (2),VIII,676,(1); IV,796,(2)p., 8 woodengr. plates w. accomp. descriptions, 124 textills., contemp. not unif. gilt cl., 4to. - BOUND BEFORE: Idem. De schildvleugelige insecten (Coleoptera). Lichaamsbouw, ontwikkeling en verblijf. Ibid., idem, 1903, (6),138,(1)p., 6 woodengr. plates w. accomp. descriptions.
- Lacks vol. 3. Both vols. hinges weak/ broken; occas. sl. foxed. Vol. 2 sl. discoloured.
- First few lvs. and 5 plates sl. foxed; new endpapers. Rebound w. use of orig. cl.
= All published. Not in Nissen, ZBI, Hagen, Horn & Schenkling.
- Bookplates, stamp, owner's entry/ annot. on first endpaper and stamp on first title-p.; occas. sl. yellowed/ browned; contents otherwise fine. Shelfticket on spine; sl. worn; corners showing.
= Parts 3 and 7-13 in 1st ed.; parts 2 and 4-6 in 2nd ed.; part 1 in 3rd ed. In this "first important German treatise on insects" (Miall, p.240), the linguist, entomo- and ornithologist Johann Leonard Frisch (1666-1743) describes in detail ±300 different insects accomp. by his own drawings (partly engraved by his son Philip Jacob). Nissen, ZBI 1436; Hagen I, 254; Horn-Schenkling 7135.
- Possibly lacks 1 plate; first plate and textlvs. (sl.) foxed; hinges strengthened. Joints and corners sl. worn.
= Beautifully handcoloured plates. Nissen, ZBI 1455 (calling for 51 plates); Hagen 257; Horn & Schenkling 7210 (the last two incorrectly calling for 54 plates; "Leur nombre n'en est pas moins complet, quoiqu'il y ait un faut de 36 à 42 dans les Numéros." (the author)). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LVI.