79 1845 Botany Vries H de 
79 1845 Botany Vries H de 
- Top of spine sl. worn/ dam.; spine sunned.
Idem. Zaaien en planten. Haarlem, H.D. Tjeenk Wilink & Zoon, 1899, VI,(2),303p., orig. giltlettered publisher's cl. - AND 7 others by the same (incl. 2 duplicates), i.a. Soorten en varieteiten. Dutch transl. by P.G. Buekers (ibid., 1906, orig. (dam./ sunned) wr.) and Oorsprong en bevruchting der bloemen (ibid., 1904, blindstamped cl. Owner's entry on title).
79 1846 Botany Witte H 
79 1846 Botany Witte H 
- Textp. sl. foxed as usual (occas. affecting plates). Backstrip provisionally reattached; corners sl. worn.
= Nissen, BBI 2174; Pritzel 10366; Landwehr, Dutch Books w. Col. Plates 213.
79 1847 Botany Raspail F V 
79 1847 Botany Raspail F V 
79 1847 Botany Raspail F V 
- Occas. sl. foxed. Upper joint starting at foot of spine; sl. worn at extremities. Good copy.
= Rare. Pritzel 8362; not in Nissen.
79 1848 Brehm A E 
79 1848 Brehm A E 
79 1848 Brehm A E 
79 1848 Brehm A E 
- Vol. 2 title-p. w. sm. (restored) tear; vol. 3 sl. foxed. All vols. backstrip sl. faded; sl. worn along extremities.
= Bound for ÁRPÁD PLESCH ("Dr. P." on backstrips; his leather bookplate on upper pastedown of vol. 1; stamp on verso first free endpaper of all vols.).
79 1849 Buffon G L L de Daubenton L J M a o 
79 1849 Buffon G L L de Daubenton L J M a o 
- A few vols. sl. browned or waterst. in upper or lower margin; first vol. dedication in ink on upper pastedown; all vols. library stamp on titlepage. All spines sl. scuffed; paper on most boards chafed or sl. chafed.
= Nissen, ZBI 678. Vol. 1 (Theorie sur la terre); vols. 2-15 (Animaux); vols. 16-23 (Oiseaux, 8 vols. of 9); and vols. 32-37 (Supplément 1-6, 6 of 7).
79 1850 Buffon G L L de Daubenton L J M a o 
79 1850 Buffon G L L de Daubenton L J M a o 
79 1850 Buffon G L L de Daubenton L J M a o 
79 1850 Buffon G L L de Daubenton L J M a o 
79 1850 Buffon G L L de Daubenton L J M a o 
- First work lacks 5 plates. Occas. sl. foxed; 2 vols. (partly) waterst.; 1 plate loosening. Bindings sl. worn along extremities. A good/ fine set.
= Nissen, ZBI 678; Piveteau 150. Good copy of the first 15 vols. with 2 suppl. vols. (a complete set consists of 38 vols.). Originally published Paris 1749-1804, this Dutch edition with French text was enlarged by J.N.S. Allamand, and only 200 copies were published. The plates are engraved by J. DE SÈVE. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIII.
79 1851 Buffon G L L de Daubenton L J M a o 
- Vol. 1 lacks first quire; occas. sl. foxed; for the greater part unopened; a few plates loosely inserted; a few small wormholes in lower margin at end of vol. 8.
= Histoire naturelle vols. 1, 2 (Natural history), 4-6, 8, 11-15 (Mammals) and Supplement vols. 1-4.
AND 4 others by the same: Histoire naturelle des minéraux (4 out of 5 vols.) publ. Dordr., A. Blussé et fils, 1798, WITHOUT the 8 fold. maps, bound unif. w. the above.
79/1852 Cars Citroën Catalogue des pièces détachées 2 CV et Camionnette 250k traction AV modèles 1949 à 1954 No 446 
79/1852 Cars Citroën Catalogue des pièces détachées 2 CV et Camionnette 250k traction AV modèles 1949 à 1954 No 446 
- Paper over boards sl. yellowed.
AND 1 other on the Wolseley 14/60 (series III).
79 1853 Chemistry Girardin J 
79 1853 Chemistry Girardin J 
- Two tables w. (sm.) tear in inner margin (1x repaired w. sellotape); sl. foxed throughout. Spine and boardedges rubbed/ worn.
79 1854 Chemistry 't Hoff J H van 
- Trifle foxed; bookblock sl. frayed.
= Partington, A History of Chemistry IV, p.656ff. Rare first edition of this groundbreaking work on physical chemistry. "Van 't Hoff's book on chemical dynamics deals with reaction velocity and thermodynamics, and the theory of affinity as based on free energy. In a review of the book in 1885, Arrhenius said that the author: 'succeeds with relatively scanty experimental material in developing an imposing and harmonious scheme for the whole subject of chemical influences and actions... an enormous perspective has been opened out for future investigation'." (Partington).
79 1855 Civil engineering Annales des Ponts et Chaussées 1ére Série 2e Série 
79 1855 Civil engineering Annales des Ponts et Chaussées 1ére Série 2e Série 
79 1855 Civil engineering Annales des Ponts et Chaussées 1ére Série 2e Série 
- Some sl. foxing; all plates w. folds.
= Plates to accompany Annales des Ponts et Chaussées. Mémoires et documents relatiefs à l'art des constructions et au service de l'ingénieur, lois, décrets, arrètés et autres actes concernant l'administration des ponts et chaussées, a periodical first issued in 1831. They mostly show bridges, canals, dikes, dams, locks and other water management/ hydraulic constructions, public roads, towpaths, sewers, wells and pits, water towers, lighthouses, ports, railways, diagrams on wave movements and other physical phenomena, and (hydraulic) machinery.
79 1856 Civil engineering Bélidor B F de 
- Lacks vol. 1, part 2 and vol. 2 part 2; (sl.) browned. First vol. frontcover almost detached; bindings worn along extremities.
= Poggendorff I, p.138; Kat. Orn. Berlin 3555; DSB I, p.582; Roberts & Trent p.29-30: "Bélidor's work is one of the earliest scientific books in the field of engineering. Concentrating on civil construction, he considers transportation, shipbuilding, waterways and watersupply, ornamental fountains, windmills and pumps, epitomizing their state on the eve of the Industrial Revolution." Bélidor was the first to use differential and integral equations for the solution of hydrotechnical problems. The work remained the standard authority on practical water engineering long after most of the techniques it describes became obsolete.
79 1857 Civil engineering Descamps A 
79 1857 Civil engineering Descamps A 
- Trifle foxed. Cl. soiled; spine-ends and corners worn.
= On the measuring and consequentual calculations and technical drawing of bridge constructions. Rare.
79 1858 Civil engineering Ritter von Gerstner F A 
79 1858 Civil engineering Ritter von Gerstner F A 
- Waterstain in upper inner corner; sl. foxed. Spine rubbed; spine-ends worn.
= On hydro-engineering. Second edition expanded with plates on British sluices for canal boats, i.a. a large aquatint view of the Ellesmere canal bridge, the so-called the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct in Wales.
79/1859 Civil engineering Rivers Aftekening van den Stroom meter tot het neemen der Proeven wegens de Snelheid van den Stroom 
- Folded as issued. = Device for measuring the flowrate of rivers and other inland waterways.
79 1860 Criminology Lombroso C 
79 1860 Criminology Lombroso C 
- Without the atlas vol. Upper hinge breaking; first and final textp. sl. browned/ foxed.
= The first French edition of Lombroso's influential study on criminology, first published in Italian in 1876. "(...) 'Criminal Man' was a revolutionary work which not only caused a considerable stir when it first came out but had a practical effect which was wholly beneficial. The division which it indicated between the congenital criminal and those who were tempted to crime by circumstances has had a lasting effect on penal theory." (PMM 364). Lombroso's theory states that the criminal type is an atavistic and amoral individual committing crimes by biological necessity, his/ her typical criminal anatomical features being an indication thereof. From the library of lawyer, judge and eventual vice-president of the Raad van State O.Q. van Swinderen (1840-1925), w. his owner's entry on htitle.
Lasserre, E. Les délinquants passionels et le criminaliste Impallomeni. Ibid., F. Alcan and Guillaumin, 1908, 180,(3)p., orig. wr.
- Two textlvs. w. some sm. tears in upper blank margin.
79 1861 Darwin C 
79 1861 Darwin C 
- Ex-libr. copy: bookplate on upper pastedown, scattered stamps, shelfticket on spine. (Sl.) foxed. Vol. 1 joints splitting; backstrip loosening; sl. worn along extremities.
= First German translation of The Descent of Man, and selection in relation to sex (London, 1870-1871). Borst 3113; Freeman 1065; cf. Morton 170 (Engl. ed. "This is really two works. The first demolished the theory that the universe was created for Man, while in the second Darwin presented a mass of evidence in support of his earlier hypothesis regarding sexual selection").
79 1862 Darwin C 
79 1862 Darwin C 
79 1862 Darwin C 
79 1862 Darwin C 
- Sl. foxed; owner's entries on first blanks. Spine-ends and corners sl. rubbed. A good/ fine set.
= Freeman 1053. First Dutch edition of The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871), and probably the first translation into any language. "[Heys] started with the Descent. Darwin sent him the pages of the book one by one as they came from the printer, and he wrote commentaries on these pages, which he then sent back to Darwin. Heys's comments are printed as footnotes in the Dutch translation. According to a letter from Darwin, Darwin appreciated these additions and used them in the next edition." (Glick, The Comparative Reception of Darwinism, p.296).
79 1863 Darwin C 
79 1863 Darwin C 
- Occas. sl. foxed; vol. 2 final ±25 lvs. w. receding waterst. in margin and (sm.) repaired tears. Bindings sl. rubbed/ worn.
= Freeman 1053. First Dutch edition of The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871), and probably the first translation into any language. "[Heys] started with the Descent. Darwin sent him the pages of the book one by one as they came from the printer, and he wrote commentaries on these pages, which he then sent back to Darwin. Heys's comments are printed as footnotes in the Dutch translation. According to a letter from Darwin, Darwin appreciated these additions and used them in the next edition." (Glick, The Comparative Reception of Darwinism, p.296).
79 1864 Darwin C 
79 1864 Darwin C 
- Lacks p.161-240 of first vol. All vols. bookblock broken; quires loose(ning); sl. foxed. Wrs. sl. frayed/ loose (1 backwr. lacking).
= Freeman 1053 (only listing ed. in 2 vols.). Very rare first Dutch edition of The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871), orig. published in 21 issues between 1871 and 1872. With the 2 prelim. quires and 2 publisher's wrs. (intended to bound the issues together in 2 vols.) loose and uncut, and with the orig. subscription forms loosely inserted.
Dub, J. Beknopte uiteenzetting van de theorie van Darwin, over het ontstaan der plant- en diervormen. Dutch transl. R.E. de Haan. Nijm., A. Blomhert, 1870, (8),298,(9)p., woodengr. ills., orig. publisher's boards, large 8vo.
- Bookblock broken; lvs. loose(ning). Covers loose; sl. worn.
= Popular abridged ed. of Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859) intended to introduce the theory of evolution to a broader audience.