78 2332 Ornithology Zinanni G 
78 2332 Ornithology Zinanni G 
78 2332 Ornithology Zinanni G 
- Upper pastedown/ frontisp./ title w. owner's entry/ annots.; final 2 plates and endpapers trifle wormholed (not affecting image). Binding stained and sl. wormholed.
= Nissen, IVB 1031; Anker 161. From the library of antique dealer Robert Washington Oates (1874-1958), with his bookplate on upper pastedown. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXII.
78/2333 Pharmacopoeia Pharmacopoea Svecica Una cum Pharmacopoea Pauperum Holmensi 
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; 2nd work sl. browned. Corners bumped.
78 2334 Philibert J C 
78 2334 Philibert J C 
78 2334 Philibert J C 
78 2334 Philibert J C 
- Spine-ends chipped; sl. rubbed. = Nice celestial plates and one plate of a whirlwind.
78/2335 Physiognomy Le Lavater portatif ou Précis de l'Art de connaître les Hommes Par les traits du Visage / Le Lavater des dames l'art de connoitre les femmes sur leur Physionomie Suivi d'un E
78/2335 Physiognomy Le Lavater portatif ou Précis de l'Art de connaître les Hommes Par les traits du Visage / Le Lavater des dames l'art de connoitre les femmes sur leur Physionomie Suivi d'un E
78/2335 Physiognomy Le Lavater portatif ou Précis de l'Art de connaître les Hommes Par les traits du Visage / Le Lavater des dames l'art de connoitre les femmes sur leur Physionomie Suivi d'un E
- Occas. sl. foxed in margins (occas. affecting plates). Joints and corners sl. worn.
= Interesting collection of "pocketguides" for physiognomists, used in public places to find out other people's character on the basis of physiognomy. "Lavater was the last of the physiognomists. (...) His work was very influential on portraiture." (Garrison/ Morton).
78 2336 Physiognomy Lavater J C 
- Lacks 2 plates; quires D-H in vol. 4 misbound; occas. sl. yellowed. Bindings rubbed and sl. worn.
= 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.
78 2337 Picard J 
- Partly yellowed; a few quires wormholed in inner margin. = Important work on geodesy.
78 2338 Planck M 
- Bookblock shaken. Joints splitting.
= ANNOTATED COPY by PAUL EHRENFEST on p.15, p.148-154 and p.176f in pencil and pen and ink.
78 2339 Planck M 
= With owner's entry by PAUL EHRENFEST on title in pen and ink and some leaves ANNOTATED in pencil by the same.
78 2340 Psychology and psycho analysis Alibert J L 
78 2340 Psychology and psycho analysis Alibert J L 
- Sl. foxed; both vols. w. library ticket on upper pastedown; annot. in red pencil on both first free endpapers. Small paper tickets mounted on frontcovers.
= Alibert (1766-1837) was revered as the leading dermatologist of his generation. He was physician to Louis XVIII and famous across Europe for this teaching. This work, one of his few forays outside dermatology, concerns the psychology of emotions and gives historical and contemporary examples. Rare edition.
78 2341 Psychology and psycho analysis Bernheim H 
= "As early as 1884 Bernheim stated his opposition to Charcot's concepts regarding hypnosis. He criticized the Parisian idea of hypnosis in three stages, and was the first to have the courage to say that it was a "cultural hypnosis: entirely explicable by suggestion." Freud visited Bergheim and subsequently translated the present work in German in 1888. DSB II, p.35f.
78 2342 Psychology and psycho analysis Freud S 
- Second vol. bookblock shaken; first vol. bookplate on upper pastedown.
= Norman Library F63 (Erste Folge), F95 (Vierte Folge) and F101 (Fünfte Folge).
AND 2 others, incl. 1 vol. by the same.
78 2343 Psychology and psycho analysis Freud S 
- Bookblock broken but holding on lining. Covers sl. discoloured.
= Grinstein 221; Norman Library F85: "Freud's Totem and taboo was originally published as four essays in the psychiatric journal Imago, under the general title Resemblances between the psychic lives of savages and neurotics; the four essays were titled "The horror of incest," "Taboo and emotional ambivalence," "Animism, magic and the omnipotence of thoughts," and "The return of totemism in childhood." This important work represents Freud's first attempt to analyze some of the unsolved problems of social psychology from a psychoanalytic standpoint; in the final essay, he concluded that "the beginnings of religion, morality, social life and art [meet] in the Oedipus complex."
Idem. Das Ich und Es. Leipsic/ Vienna/ Zürich, IPV, 1923, 1st ed., 77,(1),(2 advert.)p., orig. wr.
- Owner's entry on htitle and frontwrapper in pen and ink.
= Grinstein 121; Meyer-Palmedo/ Fichtner 1923b; Norman Library F105: "Freud's last major contribution to psychoanalytic theory. The ego and the id offered a new picture of the structure of the mind, introducing the threefold division of ego, superego and id (...)."
Idem. Kleine Beiträge zur Traumlehre. Ibid., idem, 1925, 1st ed., 76,(1),(2 advert.)p., orig. wr. - AND 2 others by the same.
78/2344 Railways Lot of 4 train timetables 
- Czech timetable wr. worn and backstrip dam.
78 2345 Ray J 
- The plates in both vols. possibly from a different work. = Rare.
78 2346 Redi F 
78 2346 Redi F 
- First part of first work lacks 1 plate and 2nd work lacks 1 plate; first part 3 plates soiled/ dam., partly repaired; all parts waterstained throughout; upper pastedown loose; upper hinge split. Binding soiled; vellum frontcover sl. dam.
= Ad 1: Written by the Italian scientist Francesco Redi (1626-1697), here in Latin translation. The first part describing various exotic animals and plants, illustrated with interesting plates, showing i.a. the "Coccus Maldivensis", an iguana and an armadillo. The last two parts deal with the extensive research Redi did into snake venom. "The first methodical work on snake-poison. Redi demonstrated for the first time that, for the poison to produce its effect, it must be injected under the skin." (Garrison/ Morton on the Italian edition of 1664). Nissen, ZBI 3322; DSB XI, p.341f; Wellcome IV, p.488; BMN II, p.217; Rahir 3269; cf. Garrison/ Morton 2102. Ad 2: The second work is an early monograph on the Albatros. Wellcome III, p.426; not in Nissen, IVB. SEE ILLLUSTRATION PLATE.
78 2347 Reuleaux F 
78 2347 Reuleaux F 
78 2347 Reuleaux F 
- Some scattered owner's annots./ stamps; foxed. Spine and board edges sunned. Rare.
= DSB XI, p.384-385; cf. Poggendorff III, p.1111 (4th ed.).
Idem. Cinématique. Principes fondamentaux d'une théorie des machines. French transl. A. Debize. Paris, F. Savy, 1877, 1st ed., 2 parts in 1 vol., textpart (4),IV,651p., 459 woodengr. textills., atlas (4)textp. and 8 fold. plates, contemp. hmor.
- Upper hinge broken; partly sl. waterstained in lower margin (incl. first plate and (h)title atlas). Joints split(ting); corners showing.
= Roberts and Trent p.277 (1st German ed., 1875). First French translation of the main work of the 'Father of Kinematics'.
78 2348 Rogers H J ed 
= Rare complete set. Contains articles by various leading scientists at the time.
78 2349 Rutherford E 
- Upper joint broken.
= PMM 411. First German edition of this important work. This edition, translated from the 2nd English ed. of 1905, Rutherford himself added further descriptions of the results obtained in the years between. Rutherford made a "Proposal of a new theory of atomic disintegration and of the nuclear nature of the atom. Rutherford discovered and named the alpha, beta, and gamma rays." (Horblitt 91). "After the discovery of thorium emanations in 1900 new concepts of atomic structure followed from the brilliant experiments of Rutherford. A new theory of atomic disintegration was proposed, then the nuclear nature of the atom." (Dibner 51).
78 2350 Spechhan J von 
- Title-p. doubled, soiled and w. some rubbed/ dam. spots. Covers sl. waterst.
= Extremely rare self-help booklet containing cures for various ailments, as well as recipes and remedies for all sorts of domestic practical purposes.
78/2351 La théorie du rayonnement et les quanta Rapports et discussions de la réunion tenue à Bruxelles du 30 octobre au 3 novembre 1911 sous les auspices de M E Solvay Ed P Langevin and M de 
- Contemp. owner's entry on wrapper and htitle. Backstrip sl. dam.
= Very rare first edition of the proceedings of the first international Solvay Conference on physics, devoted to radiation theory and the quanta.