80 2331 Astronomy Derham W 
80 2331 Astronomy Derham W 
- Contents partly (sl.) browned. Binding sl. worn along extremities.
80 2332 Astronomy Graaf A de 
- Owner's entry of Jacobus de Schipper of Wemeldinge on first free endpaper, dated 1804; one tiny wormhole in blank outer margin throughout. Pastedowns detached; sm. contemp. annot. in pen and ink on one plate. Otherwise a fine copy.
= The (15)p. at the end contain Redenering wegens de vinding der lengte van Oost en West. Hoogendoorn GraafA07: "By all appearances this work is a precis of Dirck Rembrantsz van Nierop's Nederduitse astronomie, and De Graaf was therefore repeatedly accused of plagiarism." Bierens de Haan 1754 and 1755. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVII.
80 2333 Astronomy Gunther R T 
- Library tickets on upper pastedowns. Fine copy.
= Full title: "The astrolabes of the world based upon the series of instruments in the Lewis Evans Collection in the Old Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, with notes on astrolabes in the collections of the British Museum, Science Museum, Sir J. Findlay, Mr. S. V. Hoffman, the Mensing Collection, and in other public and private collections. Vol. I: the eastern astrolabes; vol. II: the western astrolabes.
80 2334 Aviation Berget A 
= Early comprehensive overview of (the technique of) ballooning and airplanes. Rare.
Het vliegveld. Officieel orgaan der Koninklijke Nederlandsche Vereeniging voor Luchtvaart. Amst., N.V. Het Vliegveld, 1918-1921, 12 vols., num. ills., orig. not unif. pict. wr., 4to.
- Wrappers w. small defects.
AND 10 others i.a. a gelatin silverprint of A. FOKKER: "Fokker am Startplatz die Wagen besichtigend" (12x17 cm., w. tickets and stamps on verso "Berliner Bild-Bericht").
80 2335 Aviation Ernst Heinkel 
80 2335 Aviation Ernst Heinkel 
- Backcover a few sm. stains. Otherwise a good/ fine copy.
80 2336 Beima E M 
- One plate browned; (sl.) foxed throughout.
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. giltlettered and blindst. hmor., 4to.
- Owner's entry on first blank. Fine copy.
Leviticus, F. and Polak, H. Encyclopaedie der diamantnijverheid. Haarlem, Erven F. Bohn, 1908, (4),526,(1)p., col. frontisp., (full-p.) ills., orig. giltlettered cl.
- Binding rubbed/ worn; lower joint splitting.
ADDED: 3 others, i.a. P.C.T. SNELLEN, De vlinders van Nederland. Macrolepidoptera, systematisch beschreven (The Hague, 1867, lithogr. plates, contemp. giltlettered hmor.).
80 2337 Bewick T 
80 2337 Bewick T 
80 2337 Bewick T 
80 2337 Bewick T 
- Occas. sl. foxed. Rebacked w. modern calf; sl. worn along extremities. Good copy.
= Roscoe 2; Nissen ZBI 351; Ray 49 (ed. 1790). "But the new [2nd] edition was no mere reprint: it was a largely revised, expanded, and improved work. Impressions of the cuts are far more satisfactory, there are drastic revisions and many additions in the text, many blocks have been reworked, twelve new figures are added, and the fourteen descriptions of bats make their first appearance." (Roscoe, p.15).
80 2338 Bewick T 
80 2338 Bewick T 
80 2338 Bewick T 
- A few quires stained in (blank) margin; later endpapers. Rebacked w. 19th-cent. morocco; covers and extremities sl. rubbed/ worn.
= Roscoe 5; Nissen ZBI 351; Ray 49 (edition 1790).
80 2339 Bewick T 
80 2339 Bewick T 
- Large paper copy. Hinges broken; prelim. lvs. sl. foxed. Backcover loose; backstrip dam.; sl. worn along extremities.
= Roscoe 5; Nissen ZBI 351; Ray 49 (edition 1790).
AND a copy of the 6th ed. of the same work.
80 2340 Bewick T 
80 2340 Bewick T 
80 2340 Bewick T 
80 2340 Bewick T 
80 2340 Bewick T 
80 2340 Bewick T 
- Vol. 1 hinges strengthened w. paper; vol. 2 upper hinge broken; bookplate on upper pastedown. Both vols. rebacked; (sl.) worn/ rubbed.
= Roscoe 14 (variant B) and 17 (variant C); Nissen, IVB 95; Zimmer p.57f. "These two volumes were Bewick's greatest achievement. They combined excellent craftsmanship with the perfect marrying of type and engravings on the page. They also showed a deep knowledge of, and sympathy for, the subjects of his figures. Bewick's reproduction of the texture of the feathering was unique, also his detail of the plumage and the arrangement of the feathers... The wood-engravings were the first really accurate and true pictures of our most common birds, and set a new standard in their illustration." (Bradley Martin 1385).
Idem. A History of British Birds. I. The History and Description of Land Birds; and a Supplement, with Additional Figures. Ibid., T. Bewick, 1821, 7th/ 1st ed., 2 parts in 1 vol., vol. 1 only, XL,43-330; (2),46,(2)p., 267 woodengr. ills., later hmor.
- Without II. Water Birds and Supplement. Sl. foxed. Backstrip faded.
= 7th ed. of Land Birds; 1st ed. of the Supplement. Roscoe 24 and 25.
AND an edition (without text) with 35 (of 38) woodengr. ills. of both Supplement vols. (1821, modern calf, 4to. Lacks title-p. to first Supplement and 3 plates. Roscoe 39 and 41. Rare).
80 2341 Bewick T 
80 2341 Bewick T 
80 2341 Bewick T 
- All vols. hinges weak; a few lvs. loose(ning). Bindings sl. worn/ rubbed at extremities. A good set.
= Comprises: I. A History of British Birds. History and Description of Land Birds; II. (...) of Water Birds; III. A General History of Quadrupeds; IV. The Fables of Aesop, and Others; V. A Memoir of Thomas Bewick, Written by Himself. Ed. A. Dobson.
AND a duplicate of vol. 5 of the same work in hcl.
80 2342 Boerhaave H 
80 2342 Boerhaave H 
80 2342 Boerhaave H 
80 2342 Boerhaave H 
- Contents w. minor imperfections. Bindings rubbed/ sl. worn along extremities; corners showing.
= The first Latin edition, warranted by the author with his signature on verso of title-page. Lindeboom 450; Hertzberger 93; Ferguson I, p.112; Schwerdt 105; Duveen p.84; Ferchl p.53: "Der erste enthält Geschichte und Theorie, der zweite die Operationen"; DSB II, p.227: "(...) the Elementa chemiae (...) remained the authoritative chemical manual for decades (...)". In 1732 seven editions were published simultaneously in Europe. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVIII.
80 2343 Boerhaave H 
80 2343 Boerhaave H 
- Late 18th cent. owner's entry (ms. inscription of the presentation gift by Dr. Pat. McArthur to the Medical Society of Aberdeen) and a few annots. in blank margins in pen and ink; 2 library stamps; bookplate on upper pastedown ("Franz Sondheimer"); sl. yellowed/ foxed. Rebacked w. modern calf.
= The rare Paris edition of the Elementa chemiae, sometimes described as the best edition with copious indexes. The second work, Opuscula omnia, in first edition, includes a series of lectures from 1701 to 1731, letters between Boerhaave and Ruysch in 1721 and some works on pharmacology. Lindeboom 457; Hertzberger 96.
80 2344 Botany Blankaart S 
80 2344 Botany Blankaart S 
- Owner's entries on first free endpaper and first blank; sl. yellowed; partly sl. foxed in blank margins; index partly stained in outer margin (affecting text). Binding rubbed/ sl. worn along extremities.
= Nissen, BBI 171; Pritzel 830; Bibl. Med. Neerl. I, p.503; Bibl. Walleriana 1109; Krivatsy 1309. Nice plate, partly in the syte of the plates w. floating plants in architectural/ landscape settings used in Muniting's botanical works. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVIII.
80 2345 Botany Commelin J and C 
80 2345 Botany Commelin J and C 
80 2345 Botany Commelin J and C 
80 2345 Botany Commelin J and C 
80 2345 Botany Commelin J and C 
80 2345 Botany Commelin J and C 
80 2345 Botany Commelin J and C 
80 2345 Botany Commelin J and C 
80 2345 Botany Commelin J and C 
80 2345 Botany Commelin J and C 
80 2345 Botany Commelin J and C 
80 2345 Botany Commelin J and C 
- A very, fine complete copy with the following minor defects: vol.I: plate 52 has a brownish stain in 1 flower; textp. 149 brown stain in lower margin of text; vol.II: a receding waterstain in lower outer corner between p.1-15, affecting the textpages and 7 plates. Covers some old scratches; both vols. joints professionally restored (hardly visible).
= Nissen BBI, 389; Pritzel 1833; Hunt 339: "The first volume, on the plants of the East and West Indies, was [his] most important contribution to botanical knowledge; it was brought out posthumously by his nephew Caspar. The second volume was by Caspar Commelin and contained an enlargement on some of the notes in Jan's book, with further notes on African plants. The original paintings (...) were mainly the work of Johan and Maria Moninck and may be seen in the Library of the Hortus Botanicus in Amsterdam". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVIII.
80 2346 Botany Commelin J and C 
80 2346 Botany Commelin J and C 
80 2346 Botany Commelin J and C 
80 2346 Botany Commelin J and C 
80 2346 Botany Commelin J and C 
80 2346 Botany Commelin J and C 
80 2346 Botany Commelin J and C 
80 2346 Botany Commelin J and C 
80 2346 Botany Commelin J and C 
- Lacks 1 plate; 1 plate and index lvs. loose; both vols. first few lvs. sl. dampstained in upper blank margin. Both vols. backstrip (partly) loosening; spine-ends dam.; corners showing.
= Small engr. armorial bookplate of the De Castro family (counts of Monsanto and marquesses of Cascais). Nissen BBI, 389; Pritzel 1833; Hunt 339: "The first volume, on the plants of the East and West Indies, was [his] most important contribution to botanical knowledge; it was brought out posthumously by his nephew Caspar. The second volume was by Caspar Commelin and contained an enlargement on some of the notes in Jan's book, with further notes on African plants. The original paintings... were mainly the work of Johan and Maria Moninck and may be seen in the Library of the Hortus Botanicus in Amsterdam".
80 2347 Botany Duhamel du Monceau H L 
80 2347 Botany Duhamel du Monceau H L 
80 2347 Botany Duhamel du Monceau H L 
80 2347 Botany Duhamel du Monceau H L 
- Both vols. sl./ trifle foxed, mostly in (upper and outer) margins; one plate browned. Bindings rubbed; corners (sl.) showing; a few (sm.) wormholes in lower edge and in spine; two joints starting.
= Nissen, BBI 542. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVIII.
80 2348 Botany Lamarck J B de 
- Lacks 35 plates and 1 half-p. plate; otherwise contents fine and clean. Bindings sl. rubbed along extremities.
80 2349 Botany Latour C de 
80 2349 Botany Latour C de 
- Fine copy. = Most editions have 12 plates. Nissen, BBI 1143 (other editions).
80 2350 Botany Linnaeus C 
- Partly waterstained in upper margin and lower inner corner; occas. (sl.) foxed.
= Cf. Hulth 72 and Soulsby 437 (both concerning ed. 1751). One of Linnaeus' major works, of great importance for the development of systematic botany.