80 2486 Medicine Kaau Boerhaave A 
80 2486 Medicine Kaau Boerhaave A 
- Covers sl. chafed and w. acid biting; corners showing. Internally fine.
= BMN I, p.63; Hirsch III, p.436-437; Bibl. Walleriana 13832; Wellcome III, p.375. "Ausser der genannten Rede ist vor Allem zu nennen: "Perspiratio dicta Hippocrates" (Leyden 1738), worin er von der unmerklichen Wasserverdunstung durch die Haut berichtet (...)." (Hirsch). Rare.
80 2487 Medicine Krautermann V = C von Hellwig 
- Fold. table w. tears on folds; browned/ foxed. Spine-ends worn. = Cf. Wellcome III, 240; Hirsch/H. III, 149f.
80 2488 Medicine La Faye G de 
- Title-p. sl. yellowed. Binding sl. worn along edges. = Cf. Waller 5504 (ed. Paris, 1774); Osler 7520 (note).
80/2489 Medicine Pest Beschreibung und Infections Ordnung Welche vormahls in besondern Tractaten heraus gegeben nunmehro aber in ein Werck zusammen gezogen Samt Der Anno 1713 zu Wienn in Oester
80/2489 Medicine Pest Beschreibung und Infections Ordnung Welche vormahls in besondern Tractaten heraus gegeben nunmehro aber in ein Werck zusammen gezogen Samt Der Anno 1713 zu Wienn in Oester
- Contemp. owner's entry on title-p. ("Ladisl. Wayer 1738"); (sl) yellowed copy; corners (sl.) worn.
= Blake 345; cf. Wellcome IV, p.44 (under Mannagetta). Rare work on the two epidemics of the plague in Vienna, the first in 1675 (causing around 76.000 deaths) and the second in 1713.
80 2490 Medicine Platner Z 
80 2490 Medicine Platner Z 
- Pastedowns sl. nibbled on by silverfish along edges. Otherwise a fine and clean copy.
= Cf. Bibliotheca Walleriana 7502; Wellcome IV, p.398.
80 2491 Medicine Roonhuyze H van 
80 2491 Medicine Roonhuyze H van 
- Bookblock loose, occas. sl. waterstained; bookblock sl. warped and partly rubbed along fore-edge.
= Krivatsy 9929 and 9931. On the first part: Bibliotheca Walleriana 8163; on the second part (first ed. 1663): Proksch III, p.447; Garrison & Morton 6015: "Roonhuyze's book is regarded as the first work on operative gynaecology in the modern sense. He successfully performed caesarean section several times, and he used retractors for the repair of vesico-vaginal fistulae."
80 2492 Medicine Ruysch F 
80 2492 Medicine Ruysch F 
80 2492 Medicine Ruysch F 
80 2492 Medicine Ruysch F 
- Vol. 2 partly sl. waterst. in blank margins. Bindings sl. worn; spine-ends chipped/ dam.; letterpieces partly worn off.
= BMN I, p.65; Lindeboom, p.1704; Wellcome IV, p.597 Cf. Garisson/ Morton 389 and Hagelin, Med. Books p.97-101; Norman Libr. II, 1875: "Ruysch perfected the method of anatomical injection, which he used to illustrate the detailed structure of the vascular system and to prepare wonderfully lifelike and durable anatomical specimens. He was the first to demonstrate the occurence of blood vessels in almost all tissues of the human body, thereby destroying the Galenic belief that certain areas of the body had no vascular supply, and the first to show that blood vessels display diverse organ-specific patterns. He also investigated the valves in the lymphatic system, the bronchial arteries and the vascular plexuses of the heart, and was the first to point out the nourishment of the fetus through the umbilical cord. Ruysch's discoveries led him to claim erroneously that tissues consisted solely of vascular networks, and to deny the existence of glandular tissue. Ruysch's skill in preparing anatomical specimens remains unsurpassed even today. He made hundreds of preparations, both of individual organs and entire corpses, and exhibited them in several houses in Amsterdam; this "anatomic cabinet" became a major attraction for foreign visitors. The ten-volume Thesaurus anatomicus catalogues Ruysch's collection, which he sold to Peter the Great in 1717; the story that the collection was destroyed by Russian sailors drinking the embalming fluid is apparently apocryphal."
"However bizarre Ruysch's arrangements may have been and no matter how much they were set up with an eye to the public, he never failed to indicate the scientific importance of his preparations. The skeletons of the allegorical representations are accurately described in detail. His capacity for keen observation and his fabulous skill in injection made him the founder of eighteenth century anatomy. The illustrations are of a very high artistic merit and could almost be regarded as being precursors of surrealist art. Most of the excellent plates were engraved by Cornelis Huyberts, and a few by J. Mulder. Some of the plates are reproduced in M. Bryon, Art Fantastique (Paris, 1961)." (Hagelin). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXIV.
80 2493 Medicine Sylvius De le Boe F 
- Lacks the portrait; owner's stamp on title-p.; occas. sl. foxed. Vellum sl. stained.
= Hirsch-H. I, 588; Garrison/ Morton 2321 (ed. 1679); Waller 9428 (ed. Geneva, 1680); BMN I, p.59; Willems 1572. Sylvius was especially important for his research into tuberculosis and for establishing the first chemical laboratory at Leyden university.
80 2494 Medicine Tissot V 
- Some pages sl. browned, but otherwise in good condition. Boardedges and raised bands of spine sl. worn.
80 2495 Medicine Trotter Th 
- Foxed copy; later owner's stamp on title-p. and on verso of frontwr.
= The rare first German translation of Thomas Trotter's An Essay, Medical, Philosophical, and Chemical, on Drunkenness, and its effects on the Human Body (first publ. London, 1804). The first medical treatise on alcoholism. Cf. Garrison-Morton 2071.1; Hunter & Macalpine, pp. 587-591; Norman 2098: "Trotter placed drunkenness within the realm of psychological medicine by identifying the mind, rather than the consequence of lax morality."
80 2496 Medicine Venette N 
- First and final lvs. sl. frayed/ soiled; title-p. inner margin strengthened; occas. sl. foxed. Poor binding: lacks backcover and part of backstrip; bookblock loose.
= Scheepers I, 572 (ed. Amst., 1687); Waller 1731 (Amst., 1687); BMN I, p.352.
80 2497 Medicine Willis T 
80 2497 Medicine Willis T 
80 2497 Medicine Willis T 
- Contemp. annots. on first endpaper of vol. 1; somewhat browned and damp-/ waterstained (mainly in blank margins); one plate reattached and lacks portion; all plates on rather fragile paper w. occas. tear in folds. Vellum sl. soiled.
= The very rare 2nd edition of Willis' Opera omnia (1st ed. 1676) with the addition of a seventh part. I. Diatribae duae medico-philosophicae quarum prior agit de fermentatione (...). Altera de febribus (...). II. Cerebri anatome, nervorum que descriptio & usus. III. Pathologiae cerebri & nervosi generis specimen. IV. Affectionum que dicuntur hystericae & hypochondriacae pathologia spasmodica vindicata. V. De anima brutorum; que hominis vitalis a sensitiva est, exercitationes duae, quarum prior physiologica est, altera pathologica morbos (...). VI. Pharmaceutices rationalis (...). VII. Pharmaceutices rationalis (...) pars secunda. Krivatsky 13000; DSB XIV, pp.404-409; this edition not in Bibl. Walleriana.
80 2498 Medicine Wirsung C 
80 2498 Medicine Wirsung C 
- Lacks the cookery book by C. Battus which is mentioned on the title-page. Hinges weak; a few lvs. dam.; partly waterst.; occas. sl. wormholed in blank margins. Binding worn; spine-ends (sl.) dam. and w. wormholes.
= Krivatsy cf. 13067-13070; Bibl. Walleriana cf. 10361.
80 2499 Medicine Woyt J J 
80 2499 Medicine Woyt J J 
- Foxed/ sl. browned, mostly in margins; last page w. large paper remnant on lower blank part of the leaf.
= Rare 1st Dutch edition. BMN. I, p.205. Cf. Ferchl 589; Hirsch V, p.999; Blake 495; Waller 10401; Zisska p.205.
80 2500 Meteorology Buisman J 
80 2500 Meteorology Buisman J 
80 2501 Meteorology Buisman J 
80 2501 Meteorology Buisman J 
80 2502 Meteorology Duyn N 
80 2502 Meteorology Duyn N 
80 2502 Meteorology Duyn N 
- Tipped-in annots. by Van den Broek on upper pastedown; sm. owner's entry stamp on first free endpaper; title-p. vaguely waterst. Calf sl. warped; backcover w. some chafed areas. Nevertheless nearly fine copy of this rare publication.
= Bierens de Haan 1280. Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek.
80 2503 Microscopy Baker H 
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; sm. tear in title-p. Paper over covers sl. chafed. Good/ fine copy.
= Bierens de Haan 2162; cf. Poggendorff I, p.91 (ed. London 1742); DSB I, p.410ff: "(...) he is especially noted for his popularization of the use of the microscope and for his contribution to the study of chrystals. (...) The first edition of The microscope made easy appeared in 1742; it ran to five editions in Baker's lifetime and was translated into several foreign languages. (...) Henry Baker was in many respects a typical natural philosopher of the eighteenth century. His interest ranged widely, and his skills were equally various: he was by no means dedicated to one branch of study, nor did he do research in modern sense. Yet he deserved the title "a philosopher in little things"; and he had the rare gift of communicating his knowledge of, and above all his enthusiasm for, the microscope to others. (...) He regarded the microscope with reverence, as a means to the deeper appreciation of the wonders of God's world."
80 2504 Microscopy Baker H 
- Pastedowns detached. Calf over backcover w. cut and dam. spot at lower corner and loosening at turn-ins.
= Bierens de Haan 2162; cf. Poggendorff I, p.91 (ed. London 1742); DSB I, p.410ff: "(...) he is especially noted for his popularization of the use of the microscope and for his contribution to the study of chrystals. (...) The first edition of The microscope made easy appeared in 1742; it ran to five editions in Baker's lifetime and was translated into several foreign languages. (...) Henry Baker was in many respects a typical natural philosopher of the eighteenth century. His interest ranged widely, and his skills were equally various: he was by no means dedicated to one branch of study, nor did he do research in modern sense. Yet he deserved the title "a philosopher in little things"; and he had the rare gift of communicating his knowledge of, and above all his enthusiasm for, the microscope to others. (...) He regarded the microscope with reverence, as a means to the deeper appreciation of the wonders of God's world."
80 2505 Mineralogy Vogelsang H 
80 2505 Mineralogy Vogelsang H 
80 2505 Mineralogy Vogelsang H 
- Ex library copy, w. (cancellation) stamps on first free endpaper and title-p.; a few lvs. and plates trifle/ sl. foxed.
= Plates show microscopic views of various minerals.
Bauer, M. Edelsteinkunde. Eine allgemein verständliche Darstellung der Eigenschaften, des Vorkommens und der Verwendung der Edelsteine, nebst einer Anleitung zur Bestimmung derselben, für Mineralogen, Edelsteinliebhaber, Steinschleifer, Juweliere. Leipsic, C.H. Tauchnitz, 1909, 2nd rev. ed., XVI,766p., 21 (col./ tinted) plates (counted as 20), 115 ills., contemp./ orig.(?) hmor., 4to. Sauer, A. Mineralkunde als Einführung in die Lehre vom Stoff der Erdrinde. Ein Abriß der reinen und angewandten Mineralogie. Stuttg., n.d. (±1905), 249,(1),(2 advert)p., 26 chromolithogr. plates w. opposing text, num. textills., orig. pict. cl., 4to.
- Owner's stamp on title-p. = Poggendorff VI, 2288.