2564 - 2724 NATURAL HISTORY, MEDICINE, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, TRANSPORT etc.
- Trifle foxed; htitle of plate vol. loose. Otherwise a fine set.
= Rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLVIII.
- Old owner's entries on title-p. (name crossed out and illegible); later owner's stamp and bookplate of G. Rijnberk on title-p. and on upper pastedown; libr. stamp on title-p.; sl. foxed throughout.
= The De Vita consists of the following three parts: 1. De Studiosorum sanitate tuenda, sive eorum, qui literis operam navant, bona valetudine conservanda; 2. De vita producenda, sive longa; 3. Liber de vita coelitus comparanda, compositus ad eodem inter Commentaria eiusdem in Plotinum. It ends with Apologia, in qua de Medicina, Astrologia, Vita Mundi, Item de Magis qui Christum statim natum salutaverunt, agitur.
BOUND WITH: Ferus, J. (= Wild, J.). Examen ordinandorum. Ad quaestiones sacrorum ordinum, Candidatis proponi consuetas, aptae et piae Responsiones, Catholicam veritatem succincta brevitate indicantes. Ibid., idem, 1557, 180,(8)p., ident. woodcut printer's mark,
- Fine copy.
= A practical guide for those who intend to take holy orders. To make it even easier for the examinees, the work ends with a section headed: "Catalogus quaestionum communium, quae in examine Subdiaconandorum proponi solent." Ferus apparently also wrote a similar guide specifically for those who wished to take holy orders in the diocese of Mainz (publ. Mainz, 1575).
- Final part (sl.) foxed.
= In total 12 parts were issued with 72 plates (our copy lacks the final 3 parts). Very rare, not in the usual reference works.
- Sm. annot. in pen on last p.
= Very rare Dutch translation of Anmerkungen ueber die Landhäuser und Gartenkunst (Leipsic, 1773). Cf. Springer p.75; Dochnahl p.71.
- All vols. bookblock shaken; one vol. rebound w. orig. lithogr. covers mounted; one vol. upper hinge broken. All vols. paper over board sl. rubbed/ worn.
= De hele Bibelebontse berg p.254; The Children's World of Learning 3390.
- Upper hinge broken; occas. trifle dampstained/ fingersoiled in outer margin. Covers sl. rubbed.
= Monograph on one of the most important wild-life reserves in Indonesia.
- Lacks plates (and textlvs. of) plates 14 and 33 to 41; a few lvs. sl./ trifle frayed; some brown offsetting on text lvs. from the plates; a few corners of the plates sl. bumped; one plate w. sm. chip. Portfolio lacks upper flap, lower flap detached; paper covering the inside of the spine dam.
= Fine and splendid colourful prints of horses; w. letterpress text and the rare paper installment wrappers included.
- Fine. = Facs. reprint of the ed. Zutphen, 1898.
- Yellowed; htitle of vol.1 reattached. Paper (shelf)tickets on spine of all vols. and on frontcover of vol.1; backstrips foxed and spine-ends sl. worn.
= Complete with the often lacking 5th part.
- Backstrip discoloured; spine-ends sl. worn; corners bumped. = Chute 048.
- Without vol. 2 (which deals with races and hunting). Corners and spine-ends very slightly rubbed. A very fine copy.
= Provenance: with AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION to Th.F.A. DELPRAT: "Aan den Edelachtbaren Heer den Heer Th.F.A. Delprat met de meeste hoogachting van den schrijver N. van Es Lt. Kolonel der Rijd. Art.ie b.d. Arnhem 23 Mei 1923." AND from the library of A.E.H. SWAEN, the author of De valkerij in de Nederlanden (Zutphen, 1937), with his bookplate on upper pastedown and his manuscript note on first free endpaper "Geschenk van den Heer Th.F.A. Delprat Maart 1931". This first volume deals mainly with falconry. Both volumes, which were printed for private circulation only, rarely come onto the market and are not listed in the usual bibliographies. Autographed copies are even more of a rarity, making this copy into a unique association copy.. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLVIII.
- Bindings sl. rubbed along extremities and leather sl. dried. Contents very fine.
= Rare first edition of this work on hunting, with numerous woodcuts showing the various ways of trapping birds, fish and other animals. Souhart p.302; Harting 87; Thiébaud p.594; Schwerdt I, p.315. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLVIII.
- First work lacks 2 vols. (w. 14 plates) and 2nd work lacks 5 vols. (w. 30 plates); occas. sl. foxed/ waterst. (mostly) in blank margin. Bindings sl. worn; spine-ends dam.
= Typical 18th century handbook/ encyclopedia for the "complete landlord", covering all aspects of managing a mansion during the Ancien Regime. Deals i.a. with breeding of all kinds of animals (for instance bees, pigeons, silkworms); agriculture, viniculture etc.; handicrafts, gardening, banking etc. etc. But also on secrets how to live to an old age, the making of artificial stones, oil- and waterpainting. A mine of contemporary knowledge. Thiébaud p.204 (note) and p.203f (on the French edition).
- Without vol. 5 and 7 of the 1st series and vol. 4 of the 2nd series;
= With the continuation of Chomel by De Chalmot. Typical 18th century handbook/ encyclopedia for the "complete landlord", covering all aspects of managing a mansion during the Ancien Regime. A mine of contemporary knowledge. Thiébaud p.204 (note) and p.203f (on the French edition).
= Bibliotheca Esoterica 1220.
- Plates and final text lvs. sl. yellowed and fingersoiled. Lower joint splitting; spine cracking; spine-ends sl. dam.
= 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.
- Occas. trifle foxed (textlvs. of 2nd part heavily foxed); bookplate on first free endpaper.
= Nissen, ZBI, 2374.
= With AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION on htitle
- Covers worn; upper joint splitting.
= The first vol. of a series of 10 vols. collectively titled: Theatri machinarum Hydraulicarum.