2081 - 2468 NATURAL HISTORY, MEDICINE, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, TRANSPORT etc.
= Nissen, IVB 772.
- Bookblock shaken. Binding sl. rubbed. = Nissen, IVB 849; Zimmer II, p.570.
- Plates 67 and 68 misnumbered 72 and 73. Plates 69-78 unnumbered. All plates w. blank protection leaf. A few leaves w. a sm. brown stain; first free endpaper and first blank loosening; blank leaf before Spotted Puff-bird lacks portion, taped w. scotch tape. Leather over spine sl. chipped along both joints.
= Originally published in 6 undated parts. Wood, p 589; Zimmer, p 615; Fine Bird Books, p 110; Nissen, IVB 912; Anker 494; Borba de Moraes, p 844: "A rare book, much appreciated for the beauty of its plates." One of the scarcest books on South American ornithology. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CIII.
- Binding sl. rubbed. = Nissen, IVB 918; Zimmer II, 620.
- Splendid copy.
= 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 CIV.
- Foxed; diagram reattached; owner's entry on title-p. Spine 2nd vol. repaired.
= Treatise VI of The Bridgewater Treatises on the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God, as Manifested in the Creation.
The naturalist Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater, commissioned eight treatises to explore the natural world to examine William Paley's ideas of a divine designer. Buckland concluded from his reseach that the biblical flood did not correspond with his findings. "Buckland's lectures on geology and mineralogy, given in the old Ashmolean Museum, were for many years the most popular in the university. They were attended mainly by senior members of the university (...) notably, Charles Lyell, later the leading geologist of the mid-nineteenth century and Darwin's geological mentor.(...) Buckland published some forty papers and books, and the major work of his later years, his lavishly illustrated Bridgewater Treatise, Geology and Mineralogy (1836), in which he abandoned his former belief in the universal effects of the Noachian deluge, was highly influential" (Oxford Dictionary National Biography).
- Trifle foxed. = DSB III, p.521-528.
AND 2 others by the same: Éloges historiques (Paris, n.d. (±1860), lithogr. frontisp. portrait, contemp. gilt and blindst. mor.) and a later edition of the 1st work (1864, orig. wr.).
- Vols. 2 and 3 partly sl. foxed and (water)wrinkled. = Swiss geologist Albert Heim's main work.
- Endpapers foxed. = Bibliothek geographischer Handbücher, ed. F. Ratzel.
- Sl. foxed. Boards sl. soiled.
AND 6 others, i.a. H. BRÄM-EMBRACH, Die Schildkröten aus dem oberen Jura (Malm) der gegend von Solothurn (Basle, 1965, plates, orig. wr., folio) and E. HOLZAPFEL, Atlas von neunzehn lithographirten Tafel zu der Abhandlung: Das Obere Mitteldevon im Rheinischen Gebirge (Berlin, 1895, lithogr. plates, orig. hcl., folio).
- All vols. w. sm. stamp on title.
= 1. L'art des Mines ou Introduction aux connoissances nécessaires pour l'exploitation des mines métalliques. 2. Traité de la formation des Metaux, et de leurs matrices ou minieres 3. Essai d'une histoire naturelle de couches de la terre. DSB VIII, p. 146-148: "Lehmann thus entered into a period of extraordinary scientific activity, publishing his researches in chemistry, geology, and mineralogy. Of these, the most important and lasting were his geological studies. In geology Lehmann emphasized the importance of geological strata in determining the history of the earth (...) He thus may be considered the founder of stratigraphy; his attempt to establish the laws underlying the formation of the earth provided the basis for modern geology." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CIV.
- Contents fine. Upper joint atlas vol. repaired, frontcover reattached.
= Rare work by the mining engineer and paleobotanist Charles René Zeiler.
= 1. Protozoa, Coelenterata, echinodermata et molluscoidea; 2. Mollusca et arthropoda (part 1); 3. Vertebrata. 4. Mammifères.
- Without the first part with i.a. the description of the brachiopod anatomy by Richard Owen (136p. and 9 plates); a few plates w. stain in upper and outer margin; ex library copy ("Lindsay institute Lanark") w. scattered stamps.
= Nissen, ZBI 1047. First part of the large monograph on the British Brachiopoda by Davidson.
Woods, H. A Monograph of Fossil Macrurous Crustacea of England. Ibid., idem, 1925-1931, 2 vols., text vol: 122p.; plate vol.: 27 plates, contemp. unif. cl., 4to.
= Nissen, ZBI 4463.
AND 1 other published by the same: Illustrations of Type Specimens of Inferior Oolite Ammonites in the Sowerby Collection (London, 1908, 7 lithogr. plates, contemp. hmor., 4to. Frontcover detached, spine dam.).