- Occas. sl. foxed/ spotted. Binding sl. worn; spine-ends dam.; joints splitting.
= Ad 1: Wellcome IV, p.56. First French transl. of the orig. Latin ed. (Augsb., 1685). Rare publication on the beaver's exudate 'castoreum', which was used since antiquity as a remedy i.a. for cramps, insomnia and anxiety.
- Occas. sl. foxed (sl. affecting a few plates). Spine sl. rubbed. A good copy.
= The plates include a map of the moon, a worldmap and plates depicting animals and various physical apparatus. On Benjamin Martin (1704-1782) see DSB IV, p.141f. On the binding: cf. De prijs is het bewijs 45.
- First vol. backcover detached.
= B. Paasman, J.F. Martinet, p.45-65 and p.100; cf. Bierens de Haan 3061. "Uit dit werk, dat zich tot de grote groep geïnteresseerde leken richtte, kan men de 18e-eeuwse opvattingen leren kennen, niet alleen op het gebied van de biologie, maar ook op dat van de astrologie, geologie, fysica, meteorologie en ook filosofie, theologie en psychologie. Men vindt er vele gegevens over de zeden en gewoonten van de 18e-eeuwer, alsmede over het leven van de auteur zelf. Het bevat tientallen verwijzingen naar bekende tijdgenoten en naar plaatsen en landstreken uit de Republiek, vooral naar Zutphen en omgeving, en naar andere gebieden waar Martinet gewoond heeft, zoals Edam en wijde omgeving en de Meijereij van Den Bosch." (Paasman p.47).
Idem. Kleine katechismus der natuur voor kinderen. Ibid., idem, 1779, (8),138,(10 publisher's advert.)p., engr. frontisp. by N. VAN DE MEER after J. BUYS, contemp. hcalf.
- Binding dam.
Vries, J. de. Natuurkundige en ophelderende aanmerkingen over het derde en vierde deel van J.F. Martinet's Katechismus der Natuur. Amst., J. van Selm, 1779, 4 parts in 2 vols., contemp. unif. hcalf. - AND 1 other.
- Title-p. sl. dampstained and w. library stamp on verso. Otherwise fine.
- Sl. dogeared; occas. sl. stained; 1 leaf w. tear. Lacks backcover; bookblock almost loose.
= Rare ed., not in STCN and usual reference works. Cf. Hoogendoorn BartjW12, 2.2 (ed. 1785); Buijnsters BNK 454 (ed. 1791); Muller 1045 (ed. 1764); De Vries 486 (ed. 1755); The Children's World of Learning 2182ff (other eds.).
- Lacks first free endpaper; owner's entries on title-p.; a few quires loosening; occas. sl. stained. Binding worn; backstrip dam.
= Poggendorff I, p.363. French ed. of W. Gardiner's Tables of Logarithms (1742) by the mathematician and professor of hydrography J.-F. Callet.
- First/ final lvs. sl. dogeared/ soiled (in corners). Good copy.
= Rare edition. Hoogendoorn p.260, 22; cf. Bierens de Haan 977.
- Vaguely waterst. in upper (blank) margin at the beginning. Binding w. minor imperfections; letterpiece chipped. A good/ fine copy.
= PMM 25; DSB IV, p.415: "Euclid's fame rests preeminently upon the Elements, which he wrote in thirteen books and which has exercised an influence upon the human mind greater than that of any other work except the Bible". Although stated differently on the title, only six books were published.
- First/ final blank lvs. with 18th-/ 19th-cent. owner's entries/ annots.; first few textlvs. sl. waterst. in inner blank margin.
= Hoogendoorn p.302, 8.1; Bierens de Haan 1220 (diff. eds.); Waller 529; Muller 1032 (ed. 1681); Geerebaert XXXVI, 1g. Rare ed., only 2 copies in STCN.
- Fore-edge sl. inkstained w. some bleeding into right margin. Good/ fine copy.
= Hoogendoorn p.973f, 3.1; Bierens de Haan 5255; Waller 529/ 530 (other eds.); Geerebaert XXXVI, 10b.
- Last few lvs. a few wormholes; one plate cut out and laid down (by the printer?); endpapers unevenly browned; otherwise contents w. minor imperfections, mostly fine. Spine and back cover wormholed.
= Italian edition of the treatise for students by Sebastien Leclerc. The geometrical figures in the plates are combined with small views and figures. Leclerc (1637-1714) was an engraver who studied physics and geometry in relation to perspective theory and was appointed to ""l'Academie de Peinture"" as professor in perspective in 1672.
- Occas. (sl.) browned/ soiled/ dogeared/ (ink)stained (sl. affecting a few plates). Vellum sl. soiled; loosening/ dam. at lower turn-in.
= Bierens de Haan 2516. With an extensive chapter "Van Kaarte-maken."
- Occas. sl. yellowed; partly waterst. Joints rubbed; lower joint splitting. = Sloos, Van Cleef 822-06.
Lacroix, S.F. Beginselen der stelkunst, ten gebruike van de kadetten der Koninklijke Artillerie- en Genieschool te Delft. Dutch transl. and ed. I.R. Schmidt. Ibid., idem, 1821, (4),XIV,(2),390p., bound unif. w. the preceding.
- Yellowed/ sl. browned throughout. Joints rubbed; backstrip dam. at foot. = Sloos, Van Cleef 821-04.
- Vaguely/ sl. waterst. in margins. Otherwise a good copy.
= Hoogendoorn p.979f, 4.2; Bierens de Haan 5302 (publ. widow Loots-Mans, sl. diff. collation); Muller 771 (ed. 1641); De Vries 499 and Versnel 989 (both ed. 1644); Philip, A bibliography of firework books W070.6 (publ. widow Theunis Jacobsz., sl. diff. collation). Adaptation of J. Leurechon, Récréations mathématiques (1624); the last part deals i.a. with fireworks.
- Frontisp. browned/ foxed and trifle frayed in blank margins; a few hinges strengthened w. tape; some sl. foxing/ thumbing; last part sl. waterst. Spine lacks letterpiece; upper joint sm. dam. spot at top of spine.
= BMN I, p.342; Garrison/ Morton 6147 (French ed.): "The outstanding textbook of the time. Mauriceau, leading obstetrician of his day, introduced the practice of delivering his patients in bed instead of in the obstetrical chair (...). This book established obstetrics as a science."; Hagelin, The womans booke p.65-67; Norman Library 1461 (French ed.); Bibliotheca Walleriana 6362; Krivatsky 7595. The first Dutch edition.
- Mezzotint very fine; contemp. entry on title-p. Brocade paper sl. soiled/ faded.
= Very rare. Contains an early col. mezzotint with an extensive legend showing "het vaatagtig vliesje, leggende in 't onderste gedeelte van de pan van de ongenaamde beenderen, 't welk, onderleggende, alhier belemmert wordt door een vleezige klomp, van de zeer wel opgevulde, en daarom zeer root zich vertonende, spieren overgebleven." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXII.
- Occas. waterstained; annotated copy (contemp. hand); bookblock shaken (first quire loosening).
= Cf. Bibl. Walleriana 370 (ed. 1719); Wellcome Library II, p.36; cf. Garrison/ Morton 2194 ("A classical work of prognosis"); cf. Osler 1801.
- Engr. armorial bookplate on verso first free endpaper; occas. sl. yellowed. Top of spine chipped; corners showing.
= Provenance: the collection of G.A. Lindeboom w. his bookplate on upper pastedown. This ed. not in Wellcome. Lindeboom 533; Hertzberger 238; Garrison/ Morton 2194 (other edition): "A classical work on prognosis".
- Trifle foxed; bookplate of C. Julliard on upper pastedown. Joints splitting.
= Norman 206: "Intended as the prologue to a multi-volume work on the principles of experimental medicine (which was never published), Bernard's masterly justification and exposition of the use of the experimental method in studying life phenomena has remained a classic of both scientific and philosophical literature"; PMM 353; Bibl. Walleriana 951.
- Sl. yellowed/ agetoned; partly sl. water-/ dampstained; a few lvs. w. restored margins.
= Krivatsy 1188; Bibl. Med. Neerl. I, p.57; Hirsch I, p.441. The third edition of this popular medicinal manual by the erudite Van Beverwijck, friend of the poet J. Cats, whose poems are found throughout the book. Among his remarkable observations we find the description of silicosis (gin-drinker's liver), artificial teeth and epileptic children due to alcoholism. The work also contains a chapter on tobacco (Arents 261, with reproduction of the fine half-p. engr. of Dutch smokers).