2075 - 2373 NATURAL HISTORY, MEDICINE, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY etc.
- 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).
- 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.
- Partly yellowed; a few quires wormholed in inner margin. = Important work on geodesy.
- Bookblock shaken. Joints splitting.
= ANNOTATED COPY by PAUL EHRENFEST on p.15, p.148-154 and p.176f in pencil and pen and ink.
= With owner's entry by PAUL EHRENFEST on title in pen and ink and some leaves ANNOTATED in pencil by the same.
- 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.
= "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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Czech timetable wr. worn and backstrip dam.
- The plates in both vols. possibly from a different work. = Rare.
- 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.
- 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'.
= Rare complete set. Contains articles by various leading scientists at the time.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- Cloth foxed and sl. soiled.
= DSB VIII, 595-607: "Fundamental among Mach's theoretical contributions and reflections were his explanations of visual, aural, and kinesthetic sensation; his views on mechanics, thermodynamics, optics, and molecular spectroscopy; and the ideas associated with his wave propulsion studies"; Roberts & Trent p.210.
- Some library stamps; occas. yellowed/ sl. foxed. Bindings sl. worn and w. some dam. spots.
- Wr. sl. soiled.
= Dutch physicist Uhlenbeck's thesis on quantum theory after proving in 1925 with Goudsmit the spin in the electron. With "Stellingen" loosely inserted (4p.).