2710 - 2909 NATURAL HISTORY, MEDICINE, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, TRANSPORT etc.
- Fore-edge sl. foxed; upper right corner sl. bumped. Good/ fine copy.
= From the library of botanist H.R. Darlington (bookplate on upper pastedown). Nissen, ZBI 2892.
- Bindings sl./ trifle rubbed along extremities.
- Occas. sl. foxed.
= Rare work on lighthouse optics by the English industrialist J.T. Chance, with his dedication to Leónce Reynaud (director of the French Lighthouse Service) on title-p., and prob. w. the latter's calculations in pencil.
Edwards, E.P. The Eddystone Lighthouses (New and Old): An Account of the Building and General Arrangements of the New Tower. With an Abridgment of Smeaton's Narrative of the Building of the Old Tower by T. Williams. London, Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1882, VII,(1),186p., woodengr. frontisp. and 3 plates, modern hmor., orig. wr. pres. - AND 2 others, i.a. L. RENARD, Les phares. Bibliothèque des Merveilles (Paris, 1867, 35 woodengr. plates/ ills., hmor.).
- Some vols. partly sl. waterstained. All vols. covers trifle/ sl. chafed.
= Nissen ZBI 2011; Nissen BBI 940. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXI.
- Lacks 15 plates; a few plates sl. browned/ trilfe waterst.; all vols. with stamp on blank verso title-p. Bindings sl. rubbed/ worn along extremities; a few vols. spine-ends dam. Otherwise a good set.
= Nissen ZBI 2011; Nissen BBI 940.
- Some sl. occas. foxing. Spines sl. rubbed; top of spines chipped.
= With 12 extra plates not called for in binder's instructions. 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., W. Holtrop/ J. van Selm, 1791/ 1779, 4 parts in 2 vols., contemp. not unif. gilt hcalf w. mor. letter(- and volume-)piece.
- Second vol. (vaguely) waterst. Both vols. worn along extremities; 2nd vol. upper joint starting.
- Lacks free endpapers; outer corners sl. creased/ soiled; some old annots.
= Muller 1045 (ed. 1764); Hoogendoorn, W08.06; Buynsters, BNK 450; De Vries 486 (ed. 1755); The Children's World of Learning 2182. "De Drukker belooft een Praemie van twee Schellingen te betalen/ voor yeder Faut die hem 't eerst aangetoond word/ in Nommers of Facitten" (title-p.).
- First part lacks title-p.; partly waterstained, mostly in margins; lvs. sl. browned.
= On the geometry of underground spaces/ mines.
- Owner's entry on title-p. and on first free endpaper and first blank; lower blank margin of frontisp. sl. frayed; endpapers loosening; partly sl. waterstained in upper corner and upper outer margin.
- Lacks htitle of part 2; occas. sl. water-/ dampstained/ fingersoiled. Vellum sl. soiled.
= Title from general htitle. Cf. Krivatsy 1187 (first ed. Utr., 1651, same contents); BMN I, p.57; Hirsch I, p.441. The second edition of this popular medicinal manual by the erudite Van Beverwijck, friend of the poet J. Cats, whose poems are found throughout the book. Among his remarkable observations we find the description of silicosis (gin-drinker's liver), artificial teeth and epileptic children due to alcoholism.
- Frontispiece to first part loose; first 5 lvs. outer blank margin strengthened/ repaired; quire R misbound (but complete); lacks final free endpaper. Binding worn.
= BMN 1399 E22 (ed. 1636). A popular manual for a healthy life by the erudite Van Beverwijck, friend of the poet J. Cats. A seventeenth century Regimen Sanitatis Salernitatum. I.a. on the medicinal benefits of wine, beer, sugar and salt. Also on various herbs.
- Title-p. browned/ foxed and sl. creased; contents loose(ning) and partly foxed/ waterst. in outer blank margins. Lacks frontwr. and backstrip.
= Cf. Hirsch I, p.446 (mentioning the ed. Bremen, 1778).
- Two (1x old) owner's entries on upper pastedown. Good/ fine copy.
= Bibl. Med. Neerl. I, 83; Krivatsy 1310; Wolf-Heidegger/ Cetto 184; Ferchl p.50; cf. Eimas 676 (Latin ed. 1695): "In this comprehensive work, he cited nearly seventy authors, whose works he had consulted. The finely engraved plates in this profusely illustrated work attest to Blankaart's keen observational powers." Not in Osler and Wellcome. Third Dutch edition of the Anatomia Reformata, first published 1678/ 1686 by J. ten Hoorn. Rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXII.
- Portion of title-p. restored; sl. foxed. Binding scratched; vague waterstain on frontcover. = Very rare.
- Hinges broken; (sl.) foxed. Binding sl. worn. = BMN I, p.340.
- First blank w. libr. stamp, otherwise contents fine. Covers rubbed/ worn; top of spine chipped.
= Wellcome II, p.295.
- Title-p. repaired; sl./ trifle foxed/ browned.
= Work by a famous French quack who inherited a secret recipe for a purgative powder from his father. According to him this powder was a general remedy for all kinds of illnesses and ailments, listed in this work. With testimonials from various people.
- Covers sl. chafed. A fine copy.
= Wellcome II, 471; Garrison/ Morton 5575 (1st ed 1708). One plate shows a public dissection of a corpse, the other plates and ills. various kinds of surgical tools.
- Contemp. owner's entries on verso first free endpaper, title-p. and final free endpaper, and on first two leaves after the final printed leaf. Corners showing; joints starting.
= Rare work on bandaging. No copy traced in the BN.
= One of 500 roman numbered copies. Facs. reprint of the edition Lancisi, 1714.
Scultetus, J. Armamentarium chirurgicum. Ibid., idem, n.d. (±1970), 67,(2)p., 43 facs. plates, printed in 2800 numb. copies (300), orig. gilt hcalf w. marbled boards, orig. board slipcase, folio.
= One of 300 roman numbered copies. Facs. reprint of the edition Ulm, 1655.