2564 - 2724 NATURAL HISTORY, MEDICINE, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, TRANSPORT etc.
- Some sl. occas. foxing in outer blank margins.
= Rare. Ticket of Gebr. Graauw's Uitgevers-Maatschappij pasted over orig. publisher's address on frontcover.
Blok, D.J. Het Menschelijk Oog. Bouw, Verrichting en Verzorging. Deventer, Kluwer & Co., n.d. (1897), 39,(1)p., col. lithogr. multi-layered anatomical plate, orig. clothbacked col. lithogr. boards, 4to.
- Bookplate on upper pastdown; some sl. occas. foxing. Good/ fine copy.
- Central two leaves loose. = Rare.
- 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.
- Bookplate on first free endpaper (E.L. Noach). Backstrip dustwr. sl. sunned. Unclipped copy.
= The text for what was intended to be computer scientist and mathematician John von Neumann's Silliman lecture at Yale University, published posthumously. The lecture compares the principles of operation of the brain with that of the state-of-the-art computers of the time, attempting to find analogies between the ways the two function, but in the process discovers fundamental dissimilarities and the impossibility of one single mathematical model to allow one to perfectly imitate the other.
- Lacks vol.1; spine-ends sl. chipped and backstrips sl. worn.
= "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).
- Yellowed; hinges sl. weak; bookplates on first endpaper. Binding worn; top of spine dam.
= Fasbender p.217; BMN I, p.337; Wellcome III, p.298. Rare.
- Bookplates on first free endpaper; one text leaf torn along platemark of illustration. Binding sl. worn; rebacked; corners showing; backstrip sl. dam.
= BMN I, p.342; Garrison/ Morton 6147 (French ed.): "The outstanding textbook of the time. Mauriceau, leading obstetrician of his day, introduced the practice of delivering his patients in bed instead of in the obstetrical chair (...). This book established obstetrics as a science."; Hagelin, The womans booke p.65-67; Norman Library 1461 (French ed.); Bibliotheca Walleriana 6362; Krivatsky 7595. The first Dutch edition.
- Poor copy: heavily worn and used. Not collated, sold w.a.f.
= Extremely rare. BMN I, p.334; Fassbender p.122; Hagelin p.18ff (first German ed. 1580): "Jacob Rueff, city physician of Zurich, was responsible for the instruction and examination of the midwives of the canton. He followed the example of Rösslin and in 1554 completed his popular guide for midwives, which next to Rösslin's 'Rosengarten' became the most important obstetrical work of the Renaissance, and with Jost Amman's fine woodcuts it is ranked as one of the most famous illustrated medical books of the sixteenth century." This Dutch edition with woodcuts after the woodcuts by Amman from the 1580 edition.
- Some foxing; a few plates in vol. 2 reattached. Spines sunned. = Nissen, IVB 694; Anker 381.
- Fine set.
= 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." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE L.
- Used copy: fingersoiled, stained and sl. worn; bookplate on verso frontcover; several contemp. annots. in pen and ink. Binding worn.
= Wittop Koning p.81.
- Owner's stamp on htitle. Wr. trifle worn.
= On the pivotal use of radiology during wartime medicine, the plates showing i.a. x-ray photographs. Rare.
ADDED: Köhler, A. Grundriss einer Geschichte der Kriegschirurgie. Berlin, H. Hirschwald, 1901, (8),137,(3)p., frontisp. portrait, ills., orig. cl.
- Vol. 2 waterst. in upper margin; sl. foxed; a few plates margins frayed and dampstained. Bindings sl. chafed; letterpieces chipped.
= Wheeler Gift 455; Cole 1210. Vol. 1 contains experiments in general physics; vol. 2 focuses on electricity and magnetism.
- One quire sl. browned/ foxed. Otherwise contents fine. Leather of binding sl. dried.
= From the library of Bob Luza. Waller 4317; Caillet 5049.
- Bookblocks trimmed (occas. affecting illustration); vol. 2 bookblock broken. Spines sl. worn and (water)stained.
= 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.
- Partly waterstained in upper part. Spine pasted over w. brown paper.
ADDED 1 other: J.J. ENGEL, De kunst van nabootsing door gebaarden (vol. 1 only. Amst., n.d., plates, orig. printed boards. Spine strengthened w. paper).
