2081 - 2468 NATURAL HISTORY, MEDICINE, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, TRANSPORT etc.
75 2181 Chemistry Lémery N 
- Partly (vaguely) waterst. Binding dried and sl. worn; corners showing; lower joint splitting.
= Ferchl p.307; Duveen p.347; Ferguson II, p.22; Vandewiele p.112; Bibl. Walleriana 5697; Wellcome III, p.486 (all listing other eds.). DSB VIII, p.172ff: "Lémery's teaching and textbook on chemistry, the Cours de chymie, owed their success to his clear and entertaining presentation of chemistry in corpuscular-mechanist terms. His adoption of mechanical modes of explanation brought the French chemical teaching tradition out of its earlier Paracelsian-Helmontian inheritance into the mainstream of contemporary Cartesian natural philosophy (...)". The first edition of this often reprinted and translated work was published in Paris in 1675.
75 2182 Chemistry Mendeleev D I 
75 2182 Chemistry Mendeleev D I 
75 2182 Chemistry Mendeleev D I 
= DSB IX, p.291f.
75 2183 Chemistry Millar J 
75 2183 Chemistry Millar J 
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; occas. vaguely browned. Spine-ends chipped; spine worn.
= Rare. Not in Duveen, Partington and DSB.
75 2184 Civil engineering Bélidor B F de 
75 2184 Civil engineering Bélidor B F de 
75 2184 Civil engineering Bélidor B F de 
75 2184 Civil engineering Bélidor B F de 
75 2184 Civil engineering Bélidor B F de 
- Corners showing; backstrips w. some loss of gilding due to dry leather; joints starting/ splitting; binding worn. Despite external defects, a fine copy.
= 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. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXIX.
75 2185 Civil engineering Bélidor B F de 
75 2185 Civil engineering Bélidor B F de 
75 2185 Civil engineering Bélidor B F de 
75 2185 Civil engineering Bélidor B F de 
- Corners showing.
= Bibl. Mechanica p.31-32 (ed. 1830); Graesse I, p.324; Kat. Orn. Berl., no.3540 (1st ed. 1729); Jähns p.1745: "Es steckt eine unendliche Fülle praktischen Wissens in diesem Werke, das mit einer die geringsten Einzelheiten würdigenden Genauigkeit einen ungewöhnlichen Weitblick verbindet und auch dem Laien verständlich wird durch die schlichte Klarheit der Auseinandersetzungen und durch die 50 trefflichen Kupfertafeln."; DSB I, p. 581-582: "Bélidor's career belongs to the early stages of engineering mechanics."
75 2186 Civil engineering Prony G C F M R de 
75 2186 Civil engineering Prony G C F M R de 
75 2186 Civil engineering Prony G C F M R de 
75 2186 Civil engineering Prony G C F M R de 
75 2186 Civil engineering Prony G C F M R de 
75 2186 Civil engineering Prony G C F M R de 
75 2186 Civil engineering Prony G C F M R de 
- One plate loose, vol.1 a few pages in duplicate and a few pages misbound, both vols. libr. stamp on first free endpaper/ htitle and libr. ticket on title. Both vols. libr. ticket on spine, paper over boards partly worn off. Good copy.
= Roberts & Trent, Bibliotheca Mechanica p.267-268: "First appearance of this compendious work on hydraulic architecture (...) It presents rational mechanical and engineering principles, using Lagrange's analysis to demonstrate theories of statics, dynamics, and hydrodynamics. (...)". Poggendorf II, p.534-536.
75 2187 Clocks and watches Sainte Marie Madelaine P de 
- Sm. 18th cent. bookplate on upper pastedown ("Le Bel Horloger a Orbec"); lower corner sl. wormholed at the beginning. Calf over backcover dam.
= Houzeau/ Lancaster 11455. First published in 1641.
75 2188 Clocks and watches Smit J L 
75 2188 Clocks and watches Smit J L 
- Trifle yellowed; prelim. lvs. sl. mouldy; sm. hole in title-p.; one plate (nearly) torn in two along fold; later endpapers. Binding sl. soiled and stained.
= Rare.
75 2189 Computer science Couffignal L 
- Uncut copy.
= With SIGNED DEDICATION by the author on htitle. Very rare work by the French computer pioneer.
75 2190 Crabb G 
- Vol. 1 upper joint splitting. A fine set.
= Contains a variety of plates, alphabetically arranged by subject, i.a. Astronomy, Botany, Entomology, Heraldry, Ichthyology, Militia, Music, Ornithology, Printing and Zoology.
75 2191 Curie I and Joliot F 
= Three articles publ. in Actualités scientifiques et industrielles. DSB VII, p.151-159: "The next year, in November 1935, Frédéric Joliot and Irène Curie were awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for "their synthesis of new radioactive elements."
75 2192 Curie P 
- Small stamp "Offert par la Société Française de Physique" on htitle; owner's entry on title and frontcover. Frontwrapper detached.
= Complete collection of Pierre Curie's publications, including those with M. Curie. DSB III, p.503-508: "It was Marie Curie who, impressed by Roentgen's and Becquerel's discoveries, considered investigating other substances exhibiting the same properties as uranium. For Pierrie Curie this was a new period in his scientific career: in close collaboration with his wife, he was to study radioactivity and discover polonium and radium (...) The success of their collaboration was assured by the complementary nature of their talents. Pierre Curie appeared to be the complete physicist (...); Marie Curie on the other hand, was trained mainly as a chemist (...) The reason for their succes may be found in the new method of chemical analysis based on the precise measurement of radiation emitted, a method still in use. It shows the trademark of Pierre Curie."
75 2193 d'Orbigny C 
75 2193 d'Orbigny C 
- All vols. trifle/ sl. foxed. Sl. rubbed along extremities. A fine and nice set of this impressive work.
= Nissen, ZBI 4617. Contains plates of mammals (46x), birds (53x), lepidoptera (18x), flowers (37x), reptiles, insects etc. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XC.
75 2194 Darwin C 
- Occas. trifle foxed. = Freeman 912. Published in the same year as the first English edition.
75 2195 Darwin C 
- Sm. bookseller's ticket on upper pastedown; first and final lvs. foxed/ sl. browned; hinges strengthened. Spine-ends and corners rubbed.
= Freeman 1277.
75 2196 Darwin C 
- Sm. bookseller's ticket on upper pastedown; owner's entry in pen and ink on title; hinges strengthened; bookblock broken. Spine-ends and corners rubbed.
= Freeman 1249. With errata slip.
75 2197 Darwin C 
- Library stamp on title; occas. sl. foxed; bookblock broken. Paper libr. ticket at foot of spine; spine-ends and corners sl. worn.
= Freeman 1141; Garrison/ Morton 4975. The first edition in the first issue, with the roman numbered plates.
AND 1 other by i.a. the same: Erasmus Darwin (ibid., 1879, 1st ed., orig. giltlettered blindst. cl.
75 2198 Darwin C 
- Fine copy. = Freeman 1357.
75 2199 Darwin C 
75 2199 Darwin C 
- Top of spine sm. dam.; covers some vague foxing; frontcover partly sl. sunned.
= Freeman 1555: "Printed, not published, for presentation only" (on the occasion of the celebration of the centenary of the birth of Charles Darwin and of the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species). This copy presented to Professor G.C.J. Vosmaer.
Idem. The Foundations of the Origin of Species. Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844. Ed. F. Darwin. Ibid., idem, 1909, 1st ed., XXIX,(1),263p., frontisp. portr., orig. buckram, t.e.g.
- Some sl. occas. foxing. Backstrip and margins of covers discol.; covers trifle rubbed.
= Freeman 1556. The first Essay (p.1-53) in the same setting of type as the above; the second Essay in first edition. Copy from the library of J.P. Lotsy, w. his owner's entry, who presented the book to H.N. Kooiman in 1917 (w. his owner's entry and annot.),
75 2200 Darwin C 
- Sm. bookseller's ticket on upper pastedown; owner's entry in pen and ink on title; hinges strengthened; bookblock broken. Spine-ends and corners rubbed.
= Freeman 1217.