2710 - 2909 NATURAL HISTORY, MEDICINE, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, TRANSPORT etc.
- Sl. dogeared. Lacks binding.
= Very rare anatomical atlas, usually found with uncoloured plates. Not in the usual reference works.
- Trifle wormholed in lower blank margin of final few leaves. Lacks letterpiece on spine; a few unobtrusive darkened stains on binding; supralibros sl. rubbed. Fine copy.
= BMN I, p.338. Armorial Belge du Bibliophile p.523-524. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXII.
= One of 500 roman numbered copies. Facs. reprint of the edition Venice, 1495.
Ruffen, J. (= J. Rüff). De conceptus et generatione hominis. Ibid., idem, n.d. (±1975), 98 lvs. printed in 2800 numb. copies (300), orig. overlapping vellum, orig. board slipcase.
= One of 300 roman numbered copies. Facs. reprint of the edition Frankfurt, 1587.
- First few quires with waterstain in lower outer corner.
= BMN I pag. 389. A manual for midwives but also for women in general to help pregnant women (i.a. with giving birth, but also ailments caused by pregnancy) and a guide for the (medical) care of children in their first year. Including recipes
- Lower portion of title-p. (w. printer's address) torn off; lacks 3 lvs. (S, V2 and V3); stained and fingersoiled; occas. sl. browned; a few plates dam./ torn. Frontcover loose; binding dustsoiled.
= Wellcome IV, p.287; Waller 70654. Flemish obstetrician Jan Palfijn was renowned for his obstetrical forceps (the Main de Palfin). The larger part of the work deals with congenital malformations, with many striking illustrations of various deformities. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXII.
- Lacks the third fold. plate; occas. sl. yellowed; modern owner's entry on first free endpaper. Binding badly worn.
= Lindeboom p.1494f; cf. Bibliotheca Walleriana 7076 (ed. Ghent, 1702).
- Contemp. owner's entry on title-p. ("Ladisl. Wayer 1738"); (sl) yellowed copy; corners (sl.) worn.
= Blake 345; cf. Wellcome IV, p.44 (under Mannagetta). Rare work on the two epidemics of the plague in Vienna, the first in 1675 (causing around 76.000 deaths) and the second in 1713.
- Joints splitting; corners showing; covers sl. worn along extremities. = Willems 1360; Rahir 1413.
- Bindings sl. worn along extremities; first vol. spine-ends and 1 corner dam. Contents good/ fine.
= Hirsch V, p.551; Blake 435; Waller 9287. Two rare works by Maximilian Stoll, who was trained as a theologian but turned to medicine and became professor at the University of Vienna and head of its medical clinic.
- Hinges weak. Covers stained. = Cf. Pritzel 1855; not in Nissen.
AND 2 others in 4 vols., i.a. E. MICHAEL, Führer für Pilzfreunde. Ausgabe B (Zwickau, 1918-1919, 3 vols., 346 col. lithogr. ills. on plates, orig. unif. cl. w. mounted col. plate on frontcovers).
- Without the 2nd vol.; owner's entry on first free endpaper; worldmap w. tear. Binding sl. worn/ dried out.
= Rare work, no copy traced on the market (only 3 complete copies in STCN). With the rare worldmap "Nieuwe en nette zee-kaart van de geheele waereldt, toonende de afwykingen van het kompas (...) Gemaakt onder 't opzigt van Kapt. Edm. Halley", on which California is shown as an island.
= Rare trade-catalogue for "centrifugaalpompen" for pumping stations, published by Werkspoor (an Amsterdam based company).
Maatschappij IJzergieterij de Prins van Oranje. Stoomgemalen. The Hague, Ijzergieterij de Prins van Oranje, 1877, (35) lvs., orig. wr., sm. 8vo.
= Rare trade-catalogue published by the Ijzergieterij de Prins van Oranje consisting of letters of recommendation from clients.
AND 3 others, i.a. A. CALCAR, De jonge werkman. Het vlechten (Leyden, n.d., ills., orig. wr.).
- All vols. w. stamp on (verso) title-p.; some lvs. sl. waterst. in blank margin. Bindings sl. wormholed (affecting final few lvs. and spine of 1 vol.); some corners showing. Otherwise a good, nicely bound copy.
= "Nollet strove ceaselessly to perfect his technique; and his last work, L'art des expériences (1770), offers the "amateur of physics" the distillation of forty years of attention to the "choice, construction, and use of instruments"." (DSB 10, p.145).
- Text sl. yellowed; first plate w. tiny hole. Binding sl. soiled/ rubbed. = Nissen, IVB 83.
ADDED: 3 others, incl. 1 on ornithology.
- Sl. fingersoiled; final text leaf and lower pastedown vol. 2 waterst. Bindings sl. rubbed and scratched along edges.
= I. The History and Description of Land Birds. II. The History and Description of Water Birds. This ed. not in T. Hugo, The Bewick Collector; Roscoe, Thomas Bewick, 18b; Nissen, IVB 95; Zimmer p.57; Bradley Martin 1385: "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."
- Fingersoiled and sl. foxed; hinges strengthened. Both vols. rebacked.
= I. The History and Description of Land Birds. II. The History and Description of Water Birds. This ed. not in T. Hugo, The Bewick Collector; Roscoe, Thomas Bewick, 24-25b; Nissen, IVB 95; Zimmer p.57; cf. Bradley Martin 1385: "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."
- Dustwrappers partly sl. discoloured.
- Without vol. 8 (2013).