2073 - 2370 NATURAL HISTORY, MEDICINE, SCIENCE, TRANSPORT, TECHNOLOGY etc.
- All vols. portrait and first/ last few lvs. sl. foxed; first vol. upper hinge weak.
- Spine professionally restored w. use of contemp. backstrip.
Radcliffe, F.P.D. The Noble Science: a few general ideas on Fox Hunting, for the use of the rising generation of sportsmen, and more especially those of the Hertfordshire Hunt Club. Ibid., G. Routledge and Sons, 1875, new ed., (2),302p., handcol. engr. title and frontisp., 7 handcol. plates, 2 handcol. portraits, ills., contemp. calf w. gilt spine w. 6 compartments, 4 w. ornaments in the shape of a fox, a cap, a horse and a hound, 2 contrasting mor. letterpieces, large 8vo.
- Joints rubbed/ worn.
= First Dutch edition. Popular and extensive 19th century manual for keeping and training dogs. Lindner 11.2493.01; Souhart p.460; not in Schwerdt.
AND 1 other on dogs: Handbuch über die Krankheiten der Hunde (...) (Freiburg, 1834, 2 lithogr. plates, orig. wr.).
- Occas. sl. foxed. = Lindner 11.2515.01; Schwerdt II, p.285.
- Waterstained throughout; a few quires w. wormhole in lower blank margin. = Scarce.
- Margins frayed and soiled. Sold w.a.f.
= Vol. II of Nyland's famous Het Vermakelijk Land-leven, a frequently reprinted work on gardening, garden architecture, husbandry, veterinary medicine, beekeeping and cooking. The nice woodcut shows the making and tasting of wine. Cf. Springer p.28-29 and Landwehr 19-2.
BOUND WITH: poor and incomplete copies of the 3rd and 1st part of the same work: De Medicyn-Winckel, of Ervaren Huys-Houder (3 div. titles w. engr. title-vignette, 1 full-p. woodcut ill.) and Den Nederlandtsen Hovenier (8 full-p. engr. ills., 56 full-p. woodcut ills. Lacks i.a. title-p.).
- Some foxing. Binding rubbed and sl. worn. Uncut copy.
= Westwood & Satchell p.35; Nissen, Schöne Fischbücher 16.
- Uncut copy. = A monograph on electric fish. Nissen ZBI, 1445.
- Lacks the orig. slipcase. Edges of contents trifle yellowed. Trifle rubbed at spine-ends.
= A facsimile edition of the original published in parts between 1839 and 1841, with reproductions of the plates/ vignettes by W. JARDINE engr. by W. LIZARS. Includes a loosely inserted leaflet about Jardine and his work on ichthyology and natural history.
- Good/ fine copy.
- Endpapers sl. stained and mouldy; one plate w. tear; lower blank margin sl. wormholed at the end. Corners bumped; upper joint splitting at spine-ends.
= Rare complete Dutch edition of Jonston's popular Historiae naturalis de quadrupedibus. De avibus. De insectis. De piscibus et cetis. De exanguibus aquaticis. De serpentibus (first publ. Frankf. 1650). Nissen, ZBI 2136. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LIII.
- Full-p. calligr. bookplate of the KAVB, this copy presented to Chr. Eggink. Spines and covers partly sl. faded. Good/ fine copy.
Idem (ed.). De pamfletten van den Tulpenwindhandel 1636-1637. Ibid., M. Nijhoff, 1942, VII,(1),320p., (fold.) facs. plates, orig. giltlettered cl., 4to (libr. stamps/ ticket). Pavord, A. The Tulip. London, Bloomsbury, 1999, (8),439p., col. plates, orig. boards w. dustwr. - AND 6 others, i.a. A. VAN DER GOES, Tulpomania. Die Tulpe in der Kunst des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts (Zwolle, 2004, col. ills., orig. wr., large 4to).
- Occas. (sl.) foxed/ browned.
= "This work is the best-known and most extensive presentation of Lamarck's theory of evolution. (...) The third part contains the most important additions to the earlier theories. In this section Lamarck deals in great detail with the problem of a physical explanation for the emergence of the higher mental faculties. (...) Lamarck's breakthrough was tying a progressive development of higher mental faculties in a physical way to structural development of the nervous system." (DNB VII, p.590-591).
- Some lvs. sl. waterst.; 3 scattered owner's entries. Binding sl. rubbed. Good copy.
= Rare. Guillaume Lamy (±1644-1683) was a French physician known for his anatomical treatises on i.a. the human soul and Epicurean philosophy. "In 1677 Lamy published Explication (...), in which he claimed that the mechanical explanation of the senses, of the passions, and of voluntary motion is necessarily a succession of risky hypothesis." (DSB).
AND 1 other.
- Not collated but apparently complete. Partly waterstained; owner's entries on free endpapers. All bindings worn.
= In total 9 parts in 12 vols. were published. Nissen ZBI, 331.
- A few lvs. sl. (dust)soiled, endpapers worse. Extremities of binding rubbed.
= Cf. (on the French editions): Ferchl p.307; Vandewiele p.112; Ferguson II, p.21 and Bibl. Walleriana 5698. Wellcome p.488; DSB VIII, p.172-175.
- All vols. first blank and final text leaf yellowed/ browned on verso. Two vols. w. superficial scratch on frontcover (vol. 5)/ backcover (vol.6). Nevertheless a fine set.
= Dutch physicist and joint winner (with Pieter Zeeman) of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1902 for his theory of electromagnetic radiation, which, confirmed by findings of Zeeman, gave rise to Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. Rare.
- Bookplate of Frederick J. Stubbs on upper pastedown. Rebacked and corners restored; covers sl. worn/ rubbed.
= Rare. Norman Libr. II, 1422 and Sabin 43892: "This curious work was written by M. de Maillet, whose name is concealed in the word 'Telliamed'. It is supposed to have suggested to Mr. Darwin his celebrated theory." (Sabin) and "Maillet's materialistic system of the world (...) was written between 1692 and 1708, but its ideas were considered so disturbing and dangerous that even though manuscript copies began circulating in the 1720s the work did not appear in print until ten years after the author's death, and then only in a bowdlerized version prepared by Abbé J.B. le Mascrier (...)" (Norman Library).
- Second vol. final ±50 lvs. waterstained (incl. 2 plates). Gilding on letter- and volume-pieces sl. worn; 2 vols. top of spine sl. worn/ dam.
= B. Paasman, J.F. Martinet, p.45-65 and p.100; cf. Bierens de Haan 3061. "Uit dit werk, dat zich tot de grote groep geïnteresseerde leken richtte, kan men de 18e-eeuwse opvattingen leren kennen, niet alleen op het gebied van de biologie, maar ook op dat van de astrologie, geologie, fysica, meteorologie en ook filosofie, theologie en psychologie. Men vindt er vele gegevens over de zeden en gewoonten van de 18e-eeuwer, alsmede over het leven van de auteur zelf. Het bevat tientallen verwijzingen naar bekende tijdgenoten en naar plaatsen en landstreken uit de Republiek, vooral naar Zutphen en omgeving, en naar andere gebieden waar Martinet gewoond heeft, zoals Edam en wijde omgeving en de Meijereij van Den Bosch." (Paasman p.47).
Vries, J. de. Natuurkundige en ophelderende aanmerkingen over het eerste en tweede (/ derde en vierde) deel van J.F. Martinet's Katechismus der natuur. Ibid., J. van Selm, 1779, 4 parts in 2 vols., contemp. unif. gilt hcalf w. contrasting mor. letter- and volume-piece.
- First vol. one leaf w. small burn hole.