2710 - 2909 NATURAL HISTORY, MEDICINE, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, TRANSPORT etc.
- Covers sl. worn along extremities.
= Nice album with beautiful illustrations of birds for schoolteachers to illustrate their lessons on natural history.
- Textlvs. often (sl.) foxed; plates fine. Spines faded; spine-ends sl. worn.
= Nissen, IVB 938; Anker 509; Zimmer p.634. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIII.
- First vol. backstrip dam.; bindings sl. rubbed/ worn along extremities.
= Nissen, IVB 1026; Bradley Martin 240; Anker 544: "(...) the work contains figures of the majority of the birds found in Sweden, such forms as rarely appear, or have only appeared a few times in that country, not being represented."
AND 1 other: L.A. JÄGERSKIÖLD and G. KOLTHOFF, Nordens Fäglar (ibid., 1926, 2nd ed., 2 vols., num. col. plates, contemp. gilt dec. cl., folio).
- Bindings sl. affected by silverfish.
= The Geological Society of America Memoir 37/ 57. Facs. reprint of the ed. Berkeley 1949/ 1953.
AND 4 others, i.a. R.L. CARROLL, Patterns and Processes of Vertebrate Evolution (Cambridge, 1997, ills., orig. wr.) and K. CARPENTER, Eggs, Nests, and Baby Dinosaurs. A Look at Dinosaur Reproduction (Bloomington, 1999, col. plates, ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr.).
= Rare ed. printed in the UK, publ. together with the ed. New York, 1928.
- Slightly foxed. Binding rubbed along extremities.
Pharmacopoea Batava. Ed. S.J. Brugmans, P. Driessen, G. Vrolik and J.R. Deiman. Amst., J. Allart, 1805, (22),21,(1),L,302,33,(12)p., engr. title-p., 2 fold. engr. tables, contemp. hcalf w. orange mor. letterpiece.
- Slightly waterst. in upper inner margin, not affecting text. Corners worn.
= Wittop Koning, Compendium p.228-229; BMN I, p.382; Stoeder p.332-336. First edition of the first official Dutch pharmacopoeia. Important pharmacopoeia, also because of the application of new chemical theories and nomenclature (i.a. Lavoisier's theories).
- Owner's entry on title-p.; occas. sl. foxed. Spine sunned; top of spine sl. dam.
= First published in 1934, this collection contains four articles and an introductory survey. Originally written for various journals during the 1920s, the articles concern themselves with the epistemological significance of discoveries in quantum physics. Although aimed at physicists, they are generally non-technical, with only one using some elementary mathematics.
- Spines sl. worn; 2 vols. bookblock loose.
= Four articles publ. in Actualités scientifiques et industrielles. Ad 2: DSB VII, p.151-159: "The next year, in November 1935, Frédéric Joliot and Irène Curie were awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for "their synthesis of new radioactive elements.""
- Owner's stamp on htitle. Upper outer corner sl. bumped.
= Rare copy of Eddington's fundamental work on theoretical astrophysics (1st ed. 1926). "[Eddington's] intuitive insight into the profound problems of nature, coupled with his mastery of the mathematical tools, led him to illuminating results in a wide range of problems: the motions and distribution of the stars, the internal constitution of the stars, the role of radiation pressure, the nature of white dwarfs, the dynamics of pulsating stars and of globular clusters, the sources of stellar energy, and the physical state of interstellar matter. In addition, he was the first interpreter of Einsteins relativity theory in English, and made his own contributions to its development; and he formulated relationships between all the principal constants of nature, attempting a vast synthesis in his provocative but uncompleted Fundamental Theory." (CDSB).
AND 3 other first editions written and publ. by the same: New Pathways in Science (1935), Relativity Theory of Protons and Electrons (1936) and The Philosophy of Physical Science (1939).
- From the library of chemistry professor H. Gerding (owner's entry on title-p.); unopened copy.
= Papers presented at Leiden University on 5 May 1920 and Berlin Academy of Sciences on 27 January 1921. Weil 111b and 115b.
AND 2 other French transl. of works by the same, i.a. La théorie de la relativité restreinte et généralisée (mise à la portée de tout le monde). Transl. J. Rouvière (ibid., 1921, orig. printed wr. Frontwr. loose).
- Bookplate on upper pastedown. Good copy.
= Rare copy of the proceedings of the famous 5th international Solvay Conference on Physics in 1927, chaired by H.A. LORENTZ and attended by i.a. A. EINSTEIN, M. CURIE and M. PLANCK. Contains important contributions on quantum theory by W.L. BRAGG, A.H. COMPTON, L. DE BROGLIE, M. BORN, W. HEISENBERG, E. SCHRÖDINGER and N. BOHR.
- Wrappers sl. sunned; frontwr. loosening and w. owner's entry.
= Rare offprint from: Mitteilungen des Universitätsbundes Göttingen, year 16, no. 1 (1934). Lecture on atomic theory by Heisenberg, one of the pioneers of quantum mechanics and a main scientist in the Nazi nuclear weapons programme during WWII.
- With owner's entry and 2 sm. annots. Spine-ends sl. rubbed. Good copy.
= Poggendorff V, p.763. DSB VIII, p.499: "The best introduction to Lorentz' electron theory in English is 'Theory of Electrons' (Leipzig, 1909), an expanded version of his 1906 Columbia University lectures".
AND 2 others, i.a. J.J. THOMSON, Rays of Positive Electricity and Their Application to Chemical Analyses (London etc., 1913, 1st ed., 5 plates, orig cl.).
- Wrappers sl. darkened at extremities; 1 sl. rubbed spot. Good copy.
= Very rare copy of the offprint from: K. SCHEEL (ed.), Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft, year 8, no. 7. The first public defence of Einsteins theory of special relativity delivered by Max Planck on March 23, 1906.
- Ticket on first blank; ballpoint annot. on title-p. Good copy.
= Rare copy of the proceedings of the first international Solvay Conference on Physics in 1911, devoted to radiation theory and the quanta. With contributions by i.a. H.A. LORENTZ, M. PLANCK, J. PERRIN, W. NERNST, H. KAMERLINGH ONNES and A. EINSTEIN.
- Bindings sl. rubbed along extremities. Fine copies.
- Contents fine. Corners binding worn/ sl. showing. Attractive set.
= Goedeke IV, 1, p.264; Schulte-Strathaus 77c; Kippenberg I, 581; BMN II, p.39. The charming decoration for this work, vignettes and larger and smaller plates and illustrations, was newly executed by J.R. Schellenberg, R. Brichtet, J. Hegi, J. Heidegger and others. The text was selected by Lavater himself from parts of his monumental first German edition (Leipsic, 1775), revised under his supervision and translated into Dutch by Joh. W. van der Haar.
- Lacks the plates in vol. 1; each vol. w. bookplate on first free endpaper.
= Goedeke IV, 1, p.264; Schulte-Strathaus 77c; Kippenberg I, 581; BMN II, p.39. The charming decoration for this work, vignettes and larger and smaller plates and illustrations, was newly executed by J.R. Schellenberg, R. Brichtet, J. Hegi, J. Heidegger and others. The text was selected by Lavater himself from parts of his monumental first German edition (Leipsic, 1775), revised under his supervision and translated into Dutch by Joh. W. van der Haar.
- Without vols. 7 and 15; vol. 16 bookblock broken; remaining covers worn.
= BNK 582. Apart from plates on zoölogy, botany and natural phenomena, there are a number of plates of professions, ship-building, garden architecture, etc.
- Sl. foxed. Spine sunned.
= Caillet 1162; Crabtree 1162: "A well researched and widely read treatment of animal magnetism and hypnotism by two respected psychological investigators. The book includes a brief but informative history of those phenomena up to the time of its publication. It also contains a treatment of the stages of hypnotism, the nature of hypnotic suggestion, and the therapeutic application of hypnotism (...)".