2323 - 2571 NATURAL HISTORY, HORSES AND HORSEMANSHIP, HUNTING, MEDICINE, TECHNOLOGY etc.
80 2323 Anatomy Arnold F 
- Without vol. 4, part 2; several plates damp-/ waterst.; frayed and sl. dam.; occas. yellowed/ sl. browned. Bindings worn; covers loose and plasticized (2 vols.).
= BMN I, p.91; Waller 486. The 3rd vol. was never published.
80 2324 Anatomy Bichat X 
80 2324 Anatomy Bichat X 
- Owner's entries on htitles and titles; browned and partly waterstained; 1p. torn in half.
ADDED: Winkler, C. and Potter, A. An Anatomical Guide to Experimental Researches on the Cat's Brain. A Series of 35 Frontal Sections. Amst., W. Versluys, 1914, (14)p., 41 woodengr. plates, each w. accomp. text leaf, orig. cl., obl. folio.
80 2325 Anatomy Falise A 
80 2325 Anatomy Falise A 
- The plates partly sl. frayed; flaps portfolio dam. Bindings w. some worn spots.
80 2326 Anatomy Leveling H P 
80 2326 Anatomy Leveling H P 
80 2326 Anatomy Leveling H P 
- Foxed/ partly sl. yellowed; library and cancellation stamp on prelim. lvs. and title. Corners showing; backstrip dam.; frontcover partly detached.
= The rare second edition of Leveling's German translation, limited to 1500 copies, in which the original woodblocks from Vesalius' De humani corporis fabrica libri septem (1543) were used. The blocks were destroyed in the bombing of Munich during World War II. Bibl. Walleriana 5752; Wellcome III, p.508.
80 2327 Anatomy Lockhart R D 
80 2327 Anatomy Lockhart R D 
80 2328 Anatomy Morgagni J B 
80 2328 Anatomy Morgagni J B 
- Leather over spine sl. dried; spine-ends sl. worn.
= Wellcome IV, 178; DSB vol.9, p.510: "The Adversaria anatomica prima is a series of researches on fine anatomy conducted according to the tradition established by Malpighi, although Morgagni showed greater caution in the use of the microscope and in making anatomical preparations. Despite the modesty of its title - "Notes on Anatomy" - Morgagni's book actually records a whole succession of discoveries regarding minute organic mechanisms, including the glands of the trachea, of the male urethra, and of the female genitals (...). "
80 2329 Astronomy Apianus P 
80 2329 Astronomy Apianus P 
80 2329 Astronomy Apianus P 
- A fine and complete copy, with the following minor defects: title-p. reattached; title-p. and verso of final leaf sl. dustsoiled; occas. sl./ trifle fingersoiled in blank margin; a few leaves w. unobtrusibve sm. restoration to lower outer corners.
= Van Ortroy (Apian) no.42 (listing 4 volvelle plates, placed on the leaves as in our copy); Van Ortroy (Gemma Frisius) no.31; Alden, European Americana 553/4; Bibl. Belgica A224. Shirley no.96. One of the most important and popular 16th cent. works on cosmography, this treatise deals i.a. with triangulation, the climatic zones in which the earth may be divided, and with methods of determining latitude and longitude. The worldmap (as used in the editions of 1544 and after) is one of the earliest maps to indicate America by that name. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVII.
80 2330 Astronomy Blaeu W J 
80 2330 Astronomy Blaeu W J 
- Later endpapers and blanks; occas. trifle fingersoiled; Binding sl. warped. Fine copy.
= Contemp. annot. in pen on title-p.: "Sum ex libris Francisci Boudius". Houzeau/ Lancaster 9714; Crone 172; Cat. NHSM I, p.39; Bierens de Haan 334. First published in Amst., 1620. Rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVII.
80 2331 Astronomy Derham W 
80 2331 Astronomy Derham W 
- Contents partly (sl.) browned. Binding sl. worn along extremities.
80 2332 Astronomy Graaf A de 
- Owner's entry of Jacobus de Schipper of Wemeldinge on first free endpaper, dated 1804; one tiny wormhole in blank outer margin throughout. Pastedowns detached; sm. contemp. annot. in pen and ink on one plate. Otherwise a fine copy.
= The (15)p. at the end contain Redenering wegens de vinding der lengte van Oost en West. Hoogendoorn GraafA07: "By all appearances this work is a precis of Dirck Rembrantsz van Nierop's Nederduitse astronomie, and De Graaf was therefore repeatedly accused of plagiarism." Bierens de Haan 1754 and 1755. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVII.
80 2333 Astronomy Gunther R T 
- Library tickets on upper pastedowns. Fine copy.
= Full title: "The astrolabes of the world based upon the series of instruments in the Lewis Evans Collection in the Old Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, with notes on astrolabes in the collections of the British Museum, Science Museum, Sir J. Findlay, Mr. S. V. Hoffman, the Mensing Collection, and in other public and private collections. Vol. I: the eastern astrolabes; vol. II: the western astrolabes.
80 2334 Aviation Berget A 
= Early comprehensive overview of (the technique of) ballooning and airplanes. Rare.
Het vliegveld. Officieel orgaan der Koninklijke Nederlandsche Vereeniging voor Luchtvaart. Amst., N.V. Het Vliegveld, 1918-1921, 12 vols., num. ills., orig. not unif. pict. wr., 4to.
- Wrappers w. small defects.
AND 10 others i.a. a gelatin silverprint of A. FOKKER: "Fokker am Startplatz die Wagen besichtigend" (12x17 cm., w. tickets and stamps on verso "Berliner Bild-Bericht").
80 2335 Aviation Ernst Heinkel 
80 2335 Aviation Ernst Heinkel 
- Backcover a few sm. stains. Otherwise a good/ fine copy.
- One plate browned; (sl.) foxed throughout.
Bauer, M. Edelsteinkunde. Eine allgemein verständliche Darstellung der Eigenschaften, des Vorkommens und der Verwendung der Edelsteine, nebst einer Anleitung zur Bestimmung derselben, für Mineralogen, Edelsteinliebhaber, Steinschleifer, Juweliere. Leipsic, C.H. Tauchnitz, 1909, 2nd rev. ed., XVI,766p., 21 (col./ tinted) plates (counted as 20), 115 ills., contemp. giltlettered and blindst. hmor., 4to.
- Owner's entry on first blank. Fine copy.
Leviticus, F. and Polak, H. Encyclopaedie der diamantnijverheid. Haarlem, Erven F. Bohn, 1908, (4),526,(1)p., col. frontisp., (full-p.) ills., orig. giltlettered cl.
- Binding rubbed/ worn; lower joint splitting.
ADDED: 3 others, i.a. P.C.T. SNELLEN, De vlinders van Nederland. Macrolepidoptera, systematisch beschreven (The Hague, 1867, lithogr. plates, contemp. giltlettered hmor.).
80 2337 Bewick T 
80 2337 Bewick T 
80 2337 Bewick T 
80 2337 Bewick T 
- Occas. sl. foxed. Rebacked w. modern calf; sl. worn along extremities. Good copy.
= Roscoe 2; Nissen ZBI 351; Ray 49 (ed. 1790). "But the new [2nd] edition was no mere reprint: it was a largely revised, expanded, and improved work. Impressions of the cuts are far more satisfactory, there are drastic revisions and many additions in the text, many blocks have been reworked, twelve new figures are added, and the fourteen descriptions of bats make their first appearance." (Roscoe, p.15).
80 2338 Bewick T 
80 2338 Bewick T 
80 2338 Bewick T 
- A few quires stained in (blank) margin; later endpapers. Rebacked w. 19th-cent. morocco; covers and extremities sl. rubbed/ worn.
= Roscoe 5; Nissen ZBI 351; Ray 49 (edition 1790).
80 2339 Bewick T 
80 2339 Bewick T 
- Large paper copy. Hinges broken; prelim. lvs. sl. foxed. Backcover loose; backstrip dam.; sl. worn along extremities.
= Roscoe 5; Nissen ZBI 351; Ray 49 (edition 1790).
AND a copy of the 6th ed. of the same work.
80 2340 Bewick T 
80 2340 Bewick T 
80 2340 Bewick T 
80 2340 Bewick T 
80 2340 Bewick T 
80 2340 Bewick T 
- Vol. 1 hinges strengthened w. paper; vol. 2 upper hinge broken; bookplate on upper pastedown. Both vols. rebacked; (sl.) worn/ rubbed.
= Roscoe 14 (variant B) and 17 (variant C); Nissen, IVB 95; Zimmer p.57f. "These two volumes were Bewick's greatest achievement. They combined excellent craftsmanship with the perfect marrying of type and engravings on the page. They also showed a deep knowledge of, and sympathy for, the subjects of his figures. Bewick's reproduction of the texture of the feathering was unique, also his detail of the plumage and the arrangement of the feathers... The wood-engravings were the first really accurate and true pictures of our most common birds, and set a new standard in their illustration." (Bradley Martin 1385).
Idem. A History of British Birds. I. The History and Description of Land Birds; and a Supplement, with Additional Figures. Ibid., T. Bewick, 1821, 7th/ 1st ed., 2 parts in 1 vol., vol. 1 only, XL,43-330; (2),46,(2)p., 267 woodengr. ills., later hmor.
- Without II. Water Birds and Supplement. Sl. foxed. Backstrip faded.
= 7th ed. of Land Birds; 1st ed. of the Supplement. Roscoe 24 and 25.
AND an edition (without text) with 35 (of 38) woodengr. ills. of both Supplement vols. (1821, modern calf, 4to. Lacks title-p. to first Supplement and 3 plates. Roscoe 39 and 41. Rare).
80 2341 Bewick T 
80 2341 Bewick T 
80 2341 Bewick T 
- All vols. hinges weak; a few lvs. loose(ning). Bindings sl. worn/ rubbed at extremities. A good set.
= Comprises: I. A History of British Birds. History and Description of Land Birds; II. (...) of Water Birds; III. A General History of Quadrupeds; IV. The Fables of Aesop, and Others; V. A Memoir of Thomas Bewick, Written by Himself. Ed. A. Dobson.
AND a duplicate of vol. 5 of the same work in hcl.
80 2342 Boerhaave H 
80 2342 Boerhaave H 
80 2342 Boerhaave H 
80 2342 Boerhaave H 
- Contents w. minor imperfections. Bindings rubbed/ sl. worn along extremities; corners showing.
= The first Latin edition, warranted by the author with his signature on verso of title-page. Lindeboom 450; Hertzberger 93; Ferguson I, p.112; Schwerdt 105; Duveen p.84; Ferchl p.53: "Der erste enthält Geschichte und Theorie, der zweite die Operationen"; DSB II, p.227: "(...) the Elementa chemiae (...) remained the authoritative chemical manual for decades (...)". In 1732 seven editions were published simultaneously in Europe. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVIII.