1607 - 1747 NATURAL HISTORY, MEDICINE, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY etc.
76 1667 Entomology Rösel von Rosenhof A J 
76 1667 Entomology Rösel von Rosenhof A J 
76 1667 Entomology Rösel von Rosenhof A J 
- Lacks 4 plates; all vols. most plates sl. frayed (and occas. w. a sm. tear) in outer blank margin; occas. (sl.) foxed; vol. 2-4 bookplate on upper pastedown; vol. 1 ±30 lvs. waterstained in upper (blank) margin, not affecting frontisp. or plates; most plates w. manuscript captions below image; vol. 2 1 plate w. sm. holes in outer and lower blank margin; vol. 3 a few plates w. manuscript caption; 1 plate loose; vol. 4 partly waterstained. All vols. joints (starting to) split; vol. 1 and 3 spine-ends dam.; vol. 2 backcover sl. stained.
= Nissen ZBI, 3466. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIV.
76 1668 Entomology Rösel von Rosenhof A J 
76 1668 Entomology Rösel von Rosenhof A J 
76 1668 Entomology Rösel von Rosenhof A J 
76 1668 Entomology Rösel von Rosenhof A J 
- Part III lacks 2 lvs. w. col. plates (pl. 31-33 of the nocturnal butterflies); part IV incomplete, lacks title-p., 20 prelim. lvs., portrait and p.149-220 with the accomp. 13 plates (pl. XXVIII-XL); some plates sl. foxed in margins, otherwise contents very fine. Bindings sl. rubbed along extremities; corners showing.
= Hagen II, 84; Junk, Rara 162; Nissen, ZBI 3467; Landwehr, Dutch Books w. Col. Plates 161. Famous work on insects, translated from the original German edition (1740-1746) by C.F.C. Kleemann, the son-in-law of the author, with the same plates. This Dutch edition is considered to be preferable to the German edition: (much) larger size on thicker paper and better colouring by Kleemann and his wife Katharina Barbara Rösel von Rosenhof. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIV.
76 1669 Entomology Swammerdam J 
76 1669 Entomology Swammerdam J 
76 1669 Entomology Swammerdam J 
76 1669 Entomology Swammerdam J 
76 1669 Entomology Swammerdam J 
76 1669 Entomology Swammerdam J 
- Sl. browned (especially the plates). Rebacked; corners showing.
= Nissen, ZBI 4057.
76 1670 Faraday M 
- Spines sl. sunned; a few rubbed spots on covers. = DSB III, p. 539.
76 1671 Gardens and gardening Laar G van 
76 1671 Gardens and gardening Laar G van 
76 1671 Gardens and gardening Laar G van 
- Lacks 1 plate (no. 8); one plate (no.121) w. tear in blank section; eight plates sl. stained w. light green stains; eight plates uncoloured. Backstrip loose(ning) and corners and backstrip worn.
= Springer 68; Landwehr, Dutch Books w. Col. Plates 101. Delicately coloured Dutch garden atlas, with hundreds of illustrations, depicting buildings, cottages, follies, garden plans, furniture, sculpture, bridges, gates, leisure activities etc.
76 1672 Gardens and gardening Sypesteyn C H C A van 
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; owner's stamp on htitle and title. Joints splitting; covers w. a few sm. wormholes.
Bienfait, A.G. Oude Hollandsche tuinen. The Hague, M. Nijhoff, 1943, 2 vols., text vol.: XI,(1),301p., plates/ ills.; plate vol.: XV textp., 317p. with ills., orig. unif. giltlettered pict. cl., large 8vo/ obl. folio.
- Bookplate on both upper pastedowns; owner's entry on first blanks. Spines sl. sunned.
76 1673 Geometry Mallet A M 
76 1673 Geometry Mallet A M 
76 1673 Geometry Mallet A M 
76 1673 Geometry Mallet A M 
76 1673 Geometry Mallet A M 
76 1673 Geometry Mallet A M 
76 1673 Geometry Mallet A M 
76 1673 Geometry Mallet A M 
76 1673 Geometry Mallet A M 
76 1673 Geometry Mallet A M 
76 1673 Geometry Mallet A M 
76 1673 Geometry Mallet A M 
76 1673 Geometry Mallet A M 
76 1673 Geometry Mallet A M 
- Owner's stamp on prelim. lvs. (1x cut out); vol. 3 w. bookplate on upper pastedown; hinges weak/ broken but all holding on cords; occas. sl. yellowed/ waterstained in upper inner margin (quite unobtrusively). All corners bumped and showing; joints starting/ splitting; spine-ends chipped; gilt spine worn off.
= Beautiful plates. Cohen, II, 674; Graesse IV, p.354.
76 1674 Globes Sacrobosco J de 
76 1674 Globes Sacrobosco J de 
- Lacks 1st text leaf (w. dedication to Charles V) and (as often) the final 2 errata lvs.; partly sl. foxed and fingersoiled.
= Adams H738; Houzeau/ Lancaster I, 1662; Sabin 32677. First edition of the Italian translation of De Sacrobosco's Sphera. The woodcuts include two early depictions of the American continent on a globe. "Édition des plus rares" (Houzeau/ Lancaster).
76 1675 's Gravesande W J 
- Part 1 partly affected by mould (occas. resulting in weak spots and holes); sl. yellowed. Binding worn; calf over boards partly loose(ning)/ dam.
= Bierens de Haan 1806; Honeyman Coll. IV, 1541 (1st ed.); Poggendorff I, p.944. DSB V, p.510ff: "(...) The scientific reputation of 's Gravesande is enshrined in this book, which he constantly corrected and amplified in later editions. (...) his Mathematical Elements of Physics [the English translation published in 1720-1721], was easily the most influential book of its kind, at least before 1750. (...) The strength of his exposition was in his perfection of the method of justifying scientific truths either by self-evidence or by appeal to experimental verification in the manner already begun by Keill and Desaguliers, perfected by him through the design of many new instruments constructed by the instrument maker Jan van Musschenbroek (...)." Many of these instruments are illustrated on the plates.
76 1676 's Gravesande W J 
76 1676 's Gravesande W J 
76 1676 's Gravesande W J 
76 1676 's Gravesande W J 
- Occas. trifle foxed.
= Originally publ. in 1720-1725. Bierens de Haan 1806; cf. Honeyman Coll. IV, 1541 (1st ed.); Poggendorff I, p.944. DSB V, p.510ff: "(...) The scientific reputation of 's Gravesande is enshrined in this book, which he constantly corrected and amplified in later editions. (...) his Mathematical Elements of Physics [the English translation published in 1720-1721], was easily the most influential book of its kind, at least before 1750. (...) The strength of his exposition was in his perfection of the method of justifying scientific truths either by self-evidence or by appeal to experimental verification in the manner already begun by Keill and Desaguliers, perfected by him through the design of many new instruments constructed by the instrument maker Jan van Musschenbroek (...)." Many of these instruments are illustrated on the plates.
76 1677 Hertz H R 
- Binding sl. worn.
= PMM 377: "Experimental proof by Hertz of the Faraday-Maxwell hypothesis." ; DSB VI, 346: "The papers "report a series of 'more qualitative experiments carried out by Hertz in 1888 on the analogy between electricity and light waves', in which he showed that electromagnetic waves are longer than light, but like light can be refracted, reflected, and polarized"; Dibner 71: "This discovery and its demonstration led directly to radio communication, television, and radar".
AND 2 others: the 3rd vol. of Hertz' Gesammelte Werke (ibid., 1894, contemp hcl.) and Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Jubelband. Ed. Poggendorf (ibid., 1874, contemp. hcalf).
76 1678 Hunting Fortin F 
76 1678 Hunting Fortin F 
76 1678 Hunting Fortin F 
- Occas. trifle foxed; a few inevitable sm. tears in the fold. plates; bookplate on upper pastedown. Upper hinge strengthened.
= Rare early work on trapping, netting and fishing (first published Paris, 1660). Thiébaud p.408f; Schwerdt I, p.181; Souhart p.636; Jeanson 233. The final part is titled Traité très-utile de la chasse. Pour facilement prendre toute sorte de gibier pour les quatre saisons de l'année, by Charles Strosse.
76 1679 Hunting La Vallée J 
76 1679 Hunting La Vallée J 
- Occas. sl. foxed; occas. annots. in (blue) pencil in margins; owner's entry in blue pencil on both title-p.
= First edition. Thiébaud p.561 (on the first work): "L'introduction est une fort intéressante revue des 'auteurs cynégétiques et des progrès de la vénerie'"; Souhart, p.287: "Joseph Lavallée, né en 1801, mort en 1880, était un de nos écrivains cynégétiques modernes les plus autorisés (...)".
76 1680 Hunting Rendorp J 
76 1680 Hunting Rendorp J 
- Parlty sl. yellowed. Traces of tickets on spine. = Lindner p.825; Dekkers p.142.
Placaat over het recht van de jagt in geheel Holland, gearresteert by de Provisioneele Representanten van het Volk van Holland, en het Decreet van den 28 July, daar toe relatief. The Hague, 's Lands Drukkery van Holland, 1795, 13p., woodcut title vignette, without wr.
- Uncut; sl. yellowed and dustsoiled in outer blank margins.
76 1681 Husbandry Chomel N 
- Some scattered old annots. in pen and ink.
= The first Dutch edition of this very popular general reference work, first published in France in 1709 as the "Dictionnaire Oeconomique". The Dutch translation contained 80 plates, of which some were made specifically for the Dutch edition. The plates contain a broad variety of useful information, ranging from how to catch birds, fish and mammals to distilling techniques and landscaping.
76 1682 Husbandry Stevens K = C Estienne a o 
76 1682 Husbandry Stevens K = C Estienne a o 
- Second work lacks frontisp.; upper hinge weak; waterst. at the beginning (also affecting frontisp. and first ill.) and end; partly (sl.) yellowed; lacks pastedowns. Vellum sl. stained and wrinkled.
= Ad 1. Seventeenth century Dutch translation of the Praedium rusticum by Charles Etienne, first publ. in Paris 1554. Cf. Pritzel 2746. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIV.
76 1683 Jonston J 
76 1683 Jonston J 
76 1683 Jonston J 
76 1683 Jonston J 
76 1683 Jonston J 
76 1683 Jonston J 
- Occas. sl. waterstained in fore-edge margin and lower outer corner (sometimes touching the plates or text, but generally contents fine). Upper joint partly split and vellum sl. stained.
= Rare complete Dutch edition of Jonston's popular Historiae naturalis de quadrupedibus. De avibus. De insectis. De piscibus et cetis. De exanguibus aquaticis. De serpentibus (first publ. Frankf. 1650). Nissen, ZBI 2136. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXV.
76 1684 Lepidoptera Morris F O 
76 1684 Lepidoptera Morris F O 
- One textp. sl. stained in lower blank margin; occas. pencil annots. in margin in neat hand; occas. trifle foxed (endpapers and final textpage worse). Spine-ends sl. worn; upper joint sm. dam. spot. Good copy.
= Cf. Nissen, ZBI p.290.
76 1685 Linnaeus C 
- Lacks vol. 9, 10, 12 and 13 (1st series) w. a total of 27 plates; vol. 8 (1st series) lacks plate LXVII; vol. 1 (3rd series) as often lacks plates IX-XII which were not finished at the time of printing; occas. foxed/ sl. mouldy; rebacked vols. bookblock trimmed.
= Nissen, ZBI 2011; Nissen, BBI 940. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXV.
76 1686 Marsilli L F 
76 1686 Marsilli L F 
76 1686 Marsilli L F 
- Paper over boards partly worn off; top of spine chipped; backstrip worn. Contents fine.
= Nissen, ZBI 2700.