81 2155 Desaguliers J T 
81 2155 Desaguliers J T 
81 2155 Desaguliers J T 
- Occas. (sl.) foxed/ browned, mostly the plates and surrounding lvs.; partly erased library stamps on title-p. Bindings rubbed/ worn along extremities.
= Volume 1 and 2 are reissues from editions 1736 and 1746. John Théophilus Desaguliers (1683-1744), from Huguenot parents who settled in England. Bierens de Haan 1178-1180. "Desaguliers continued to furnish the society with experiments until his death. (...) between 1716 and 1742 he contributed no fewer than fifty-two papers to the Philosophical Transactions, the earlier ones chiefly on optics and mechanics, the later ones on electricity." (DSB).
AND 1 other.
81 2156 Diderot D and d'Alembert J 
81 2156 Diderot D and d'Alembert J 
81 2156 Diderot D and d'Alembert J 
- Each vol. w. bookplate on upper pastedown; vol. 2 partly sl. dampstained in top blank margin; vol. 3 a few plates sl. brownstained in image; otherwise fine. Extremities sl. worn/ dam.
= Comprises subjects starting with the letters A-H and M-T, including: aiguillier, artificier, balancier, briqueterie, canons, cuivre coulé en table & trifilerie (vol. 1); diamantaire, eau-fort, fanons de baleine, fumiste, glaces coulées, horlogerie (vol. 2), and mosaïque, noir de fumée, orfèvre-grossier, paeterie, salines and tabac (vol. 4).
81 2157 Diderot D and d'Alembert J 
81 2157 Diderot D and d'Alembert J 
81 2157 Diderot D and d'Alembert J 
- Some lvs. loose(ning); contents in very fine, untrimmed condition. Paper over spine lacking; outer corners bumped.
= Mainly on (the fabrication of) various kinds of cloth and clothes, incl. cotton, "Dentelle", "Lingère", "Rubans" and "Soierie" (123 plates, incl. 27 double-p. plates).
81 2158 Engelman J 
81 2158 Engelman J 
81 2158 Engelman J 
- Sl. yellowed/ foxed; sl. waterst. mostly in blank margins, but most plates fine. Vellum sl. dustsoiled.
= Rare scientific work on snowflakes. Bierens de Haan 1329.
81 2159 Engineering Leupold J 
81 2159 Engineering Leupold J 
81 2159 Engineering Leupold J 
81 2159 Engineering Leupold J 
- Contents fine. Upper joint splitting; binding worn along extremities; leather at spine-ends worn away.
81 2160 Entomology Fabre J H 
- Fine set.
81 2161 Entomology Merian M S 
81 2161 Entomology Merian M S 
81 2161 Entomology Merian M S 
81 2161 Entomology Merian M S 
= Sumptuously produced deluxe copy of the facsimile of the copy of the ed. Amst. 1705 held in the Landesbibliothek Dresden, under Signatur Zool. 145. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LII.
81 2162 Entomology Merian M S 
81 2162 Entomology Merian M S 
= Luxurious facsimile reprint of the ed. Amst., 1705.
AND 1 other on the same publication: G. NEBEL, Die schönsten Tafeln aus dem grossen Buch der Schmetterlinge und Pflanzen (...) (Hamburg, 1964, textbooklet and 17 (col.) plates, loosely inserted in hleather portfolio as issued, folio).
= Produced by H.F. Jütte (Leipsic). Facsimile of the ed. Amst., 1705.
81 2164 Entomology Merian M S 
= Facsimile reprint of the ed. Amst., 1705, the plates reproducing the original paintings hanging in the Royal Library of Windsor Castle. Text vol. by E. RÜCKER and W.T. STEARN. Very fine.
81 2165 Entomology Réaumur R A F de 
- Coat of arms on title in vols. 4 and 5 inked black. Bindings w. minor imperfections.
= Nissen, ZBI 3315; Hagen II, p.64; Horn/ Schenkling p.975. Main work by de Réaumur, depicting in great detail all kinds of insects. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LII.
81 2166 Entomology Reitter E 
- Backstrips sl. foxed.
= With the supplement vol. by S. Schenkling, Erklärung der wissenschaftlichen Käfernamen aus Reitter's Fauna Germanica (80p.). Schriften des Deutschen Lehrervereins für Naturkunde, vol. 22, 24, 26, 27, 33 and 34. Nissen, ZBI 3359.
AND 1 other.
81 2167 Fireworks M anlyn D 
81 2167 Fireworks M anlyn D 
81 2167 Fireworks M anlyn D 
81 2167 Fireworks M anlyn D 
81 2167 Fireworks M anlyn D 
- Lacks plate 26; partly yellowed/ sl. browned; plate 2 printed askew. Joints splitting; vellum sl. darkened and stained.
= Cf. Philips M060.3 (part 1, ed. Amst., 1673)/ Philips M060.2 (part 2). Part 1 is a new title edition of Philips M060.1. Part 2 titled "Pur erga yslatryan, ofte Vuurwerken tot dienst (...)" (Rott., H. Rijckhals). "It is clear from the text and the plates that Babington's Pyrotechnia was the main source of this work." Lotz p.46: "Für Feuerwerk ist in den Niederlanden bis gegen Ende des 17. Jahrhunderts kein einheitlicher, organisch zusammenfassender Aufbau erkennbar. (...) Erst im Lehrbuche des Daniel Manlyn, 1678 in Amsterdam gedruckt [!], werden sie beschrieben und abgebildet." Extremely rare work on pyrotechnics.
81 2168 Fraenkel C and Pfeiffer R 
81 2168 Fraenkel C and Pfeiffer R 
- Several plates loose and w. (closed) tears mostly in blank margin. From the library of The Chemist Club, NY (w. its logo on spine, bookplate and libr. stamps).
= Rare. Bulloch, History of Bacteriology p.366 and 389f.
81 2169 Gabbema S A 
- Pastedowns detached; first few lvs. sl. waterst. in blank margin; contents otherwise fine. Rebacked w. use of contemp. backstrip; calf dried/ worn.
= LARGE PAPER COPY. Rare first ed. of this comprehensive description of all kinds of natural vegetation of the Northern part of Holland and Germany (especially Friesland). Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen 114; Klaversma/ Hannema 544. Cf. De Natuur 44.1 (1925): D. Koopmans-Forstmann, 'Een en ander over de "Friesche Lustgaarde" van Simon Abbes Gabbema'.
81 2170 Galitzine E 
81 2170 Galitzine E 
- Some foxing (worse at the end); a few scattered annots. and corrections in pen and ink (by the author, according to note tipped onto first free endpaper). Binding sl. rubbed.
= Princess Evdokia Golitzyna (1780-1850), nicknamed Princesse Nocturne (due to her late night soirées) was a famous high society personality in 19th century St. Petersburg. At a later age she began dabbling in metaphysics and mathematics. Her "scientific" work was classified by the Russian academic world as utterly insane. First published in Russian in St. Petersburg. Curious and very rare.
81/2171 Gardens and gardening De nieuwe naauwkeurige Neederlandse Hovenier Onderwijsende hoe hier te Lande onder dit Climaat een Tuin met sijn Parken Paaden Glintingen en Heiningen wel sal aan
81/2171 Gardens and gardening De nieuwe naauwkeurige Neederlandse Hovenier Onderwijsende hoe hier te Lande onder dit Climaat een Tuin met sijn Parken Paaden Glintingen en Heiningen wel sal aan
81/2171 Gardens and gardening De nieuwe naauwkeurige Neederlandse Hovenier Onderwijsende hoe hier te Lande onder dit Climaat een Tuin met sijn Parken Paaden Glintingen en Heiningen wel sal aan
- Prelim. lvs. w. corrections/ annots. and sl. fingersoiled; library stamp on title-p.; 1 plate loosening and lacks 1 blank corner. Vellum soiled.
= Rare. Cf. Waller 844.
81 2172 Gardens and gardening Rapin R 
81 2172 Gardens and gardening Rapin R 
- Prelim. (blank) lvs. trifle wormholed. Backstrip sl. dam.; upper joint starting; frontcover partly sl. sunned. Fine copy.
= Popular poem on gardens and gardening, translated into many languages, and highly praised for Rapin's elegant Latin. Cf. Hunt 414 (Engl. ed. London 1706).
81 2173 Geology Buch L von 
81 2173 Geology Buch L von 
- The aquatint plate yellowed, creased and prob. from a diff. work; both vols. cancellation stamp on title-p. and bookplate on upper pastedown; some old scattered annots.; occas. sl. foxed. Bindings worn along edges; vol. 2 lacks letterpiece and upper portion of backstrip.
= Leopold von Buch was an important German geologist and palaeontologist. In 1797 he set out on a trip to the Alps and Italy, partly accompanied by his friend Alexander von Humboldt. Also contains the first geological map of Silezia. DSB II, p.552ff. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LII.
81 2174 Geology Cotta B 
81 2174 Geology Cotta B 
- Stamp on title-p.; occas. sl. foxed; a few lvs. w. some brown (water)stains. Traces of ticket on spine and covers.