1681 - 1927 NATURAL HISTORY, MEDICINE, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY etc.
- Hinges weak; pastedowns loose; upper endpapers portion cut off; occas. (sl.) (water)stained/ fingersoiled. Vellum browned/ stained; lacks ties; frontcover w. 2 superficial cuts.
= Hoogendoorn Evers02, 4; cf. Bierens de Haan 1373 (ed. 1649). Rare accounting handbook for landowners.
- Hinges sl. weak; sl. yellowed and thumbed; a few lvs. dogeared; extensive later annots. in pen and ink on first blank; contemp. owner's entry on final blank ("Hendrina Krayenbrink hoort dit boek toe/ Die het vint die geef het weer/ voor een appel of een peer"). Vellum sl. darkened.
= Warranted by the publisher. Rare, early edition (first published ±1750).
- Final ±50 lvs. (incl. several plates) waterst. in upper edge. Binding stained; joints splitting at top of spine.
= Choulant p.60f; Hirsch-H. I, 72; Bibl. Walleriana 337 (incompl.); BMN I, p.84; Wellcome II, p.26; cf. Garrison/ Morton 399: "Albinus was one of the greatest anatomical illustrators of the 18th century; his illustrations of the bones and muscles were noted for their beauty and accuracy and his work established a new standard in anatomical illustration". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXXIX.
- Worn/ used copy: plates loose(ning); dustsoiled and partly waterst.; edges partly dam.; lacks legend. Sold w.a.f.
- Second and third vol. partly browned.
= Apart from the 6 Centuria the 2 extra works bound with are: P. PAUW, Observationes anatomicae selectiores. Ed. Th. Bartholinus (Copenhagen, 1656) and J. RHODIUS, Mantissa anatomica (ibid., 1661). Apparently the 3rd vol. containing the Centuria V and VI is extremely rare. For the Historiarum Anatomicarum Centuria see Krivatsy 831 and Waller 737-739. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXXVII.
- Bookblocks trimmed; all vols. old owner's entry (cut sl. short) on title-p.; sl. foxed and yellowed; vol. 4 sl. waterst. and partly w. brown stain in blank fore-edge margin.
= Wellcome II, p.164.
- Lacks title-p.; sl. waterst. at the beginning; occas. trifle foxed/ stained and fingersoiled. Binding sl. rubbed; corners bumped/ showing.
= Choulant p.48; Waller 9902; Osler 569; Durlin 4580; Adams V606. Reduced size reprint of the 2nd edition (1555, revised by the author himself) of Vesalius' anatomical masterpiece. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXXIX.
- Without the first vol. (containing 70 plates); frontisp. trimmed to the borderline in right margin; occas. (sl.) yellowed/ browned and foxed.
= Bibl. Walleriana 9917; Choulant p.183; BMN I, p.63; Lindeboom p.185. Copy in a remarkable French Revolutionary prize binding.
- Very fine copy in the rare dustwrapper.
= First published in France in 1887. Armand de Quatrefages was director of the anthropological section of the Museé d'Histoire Naturelle.
- Lacks 1 text leaf (p.64/65); title-p. stained, foxed and strengthened in outer and lower margin; final leaf (sl.) browned and strengthened in lower margin. Contents otherwise fine. Wrappers strengthened and yellowed along upper margin.
= The extremely rare first edition of this remarkable attractively illustrated educational work. BNK 509; Bierens de Haan 5606f (1st ed.). Based upon the works of J.L. Rost. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XL.
- Crossed out owner's entry ("dono accepi ex bibliotheca Dni. professoris [Johann Heinrich?] Schutte 1794") on 2nd blank; sl. dogeared; occas. annots. Vellum sl. soiled/ stained; paper libr. tickets on spine.
= Nissen BBI, 104 (Prodromus); PMM 121; Pritzel 509 & 507; J. Sachs, History of Botany (1890), p.33; Stafleu & Cowan TL2, 367 & 366; DSB I, 524. Bauhin (1560-1624), professor of anatomy and botany at Basel, began a new era in botany, distinguishing it as a science in its own right and abandoning its herbal-medical associations, by creating a modern natural classification based on morphology. "Bauhinus realized the convenience of the binominal nomenclature which later became a central feature of Linné's system (...). He decisively differentiated genera and species, giving names to genera, but without descriptions, while distinguishing species by diagnostic phrases." (PPM).
= Cf. Roscoe 18 (mentioning 3rd eds. from 1805) and 17 (variant D); Nissen, IVB 95; Zimmer p.57f. "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." (Bradley Martin 1385).
AND 2 others by the same, i.a. A General History of Quadrupeds (Newcastle upon Tyne, 1811, 6th ed., num. woodengr. ills. and vignettes by T. BEWICK, contemp. gilt calf w. mor. letterpiece).
- Rebacked with use of the orig. backstrip. Trifle foxed, otherwise contents fine.
- Backstrips rubbed spots; vol. IV rebacked with use of orig. backstrip.; vol. V glue stains on upper endpaper along inner margin. Plate 88 and 89 stained, otherwise fine.
= Nissen, BBI 107; Pritzel 524. Main work of William Baxter, curator of the Botanical Garden of Oxford. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXXIX.
Grieve, M. A Modern Herbal, the Medicinal, Culinary, Cosmetic and Economic Properties, Cultivation of Herbs, Grasses, Fungi, Shrubs and Trees with all their Modern Scientific Uses. London, Jonathan Cape, 1931, 2 vols., XVI,427; (2),428-888p., 95 lithogr. plates, orig. giltlettered cl.
- Both vols., bookplate on upper pastedown; occas. sl. foxed.
AND 2 others, i.a. B.S. WILLIAMS, Stove and Greenhouse Flowering Plants (London, 1883, num. plates, orig. gilt and dec. cl.) and J. SCOFFERN, Outlines of Botany (London, n.d. (±1850), num. ills., orig. gilt and blindst. cl.).
- Both vols. prof. recased and backed w. use of orig. backstrip; occas. sl. foxed; cl. stained; upper margin of title page cut off; vol. 2 lower edge waterstained (occas. affecting lower blank margin of textp.).
= Nissen, BBI 2221; Landwehr, Dutch books w. col. plates 14. First part entirely devoted to apples, the second part devoted to pears and stone-fruit.
- A good set. = Nissen, BBI 205.
- Occas. trifle foxed. Wr. creased and sl. dogeared (backwr. worse).
= First Dutch translation of K.P. Bouché's Zimmer- und Fenstergarten, oder kurze und deutliche Anleitung, die beliebtesten Blumen- und Zierpflanzen in Zimmern und Fenster ziehen, pflegen und überwintern zu können (first published 1808). Landwehr, Vergeten cultuurdragers 2.
- Occas. sl. foxed.
Christensen, C. Index Filicum, Sive Enumuratio Omnium Generum Specierumque Filicum et Hydropteridum. Copenhagen, H. Hagerup, 1906, LIX,(3),744p., contemp. hcalf. - AND 5 others, i.a. P.H. GONNET, Flores Élementaires de la France (Paris, Ledoyen et Giret, 1847, 2 vols., 13 (fold.) plates, orig. unif. gilt hmor) and A. POITEAU, Le Bon Jardinier, Encyclopédie Horticole (Paris, n.d. (1933), 150th ed., 1 fold. col. lithogr. map, 6 col. lithogr. plates, num. ills., orig. gilt and blindst. hcalf).