1607 - 1747 NATURAL HISTORY, MEDICINE, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY etc.
- Both vols. bookplate on upper pastedonw. Both vols. corners professionally restored w. modern artif. leather; top of spines chipped.
ADDED: an incomplete work by the same: OVER DE PHYSIOGNOMIE (Ibid., 1771-1784, 3 (of 4) vols., 35 (of 38) plates, ills., bound unif. w. the preceding).
- Sm. tear in lower blank margin of title-p., not affecting text or image; some offsetting from turn-ins; bookplate on upper pastedown. Corners professionally restored w. modern artif. lelather. Good copy.
- Top of joints sl. worn.
= With the owner's entry of PIETER ZEEMAN on first free endpaper. Rare, separately published continuation of the earlier published first vol. of Poincaré's course on Théorie mathématique de Lumière, which was publ. in Paris in 1889 by the same publisher. "The development of mathematics in the nineteenth century began under the shadow of a giant, Carl Friedrich Gauss; it ended with the domination by a genius of similar magnitude, Henri Poincaré (...) For more than twenty years Poincaré lectured at the Sorbonne on mathematical physics; he gave himself to that task with his characteristic thoroughness and energy, with the result that he became an expert in practically all parts of theoretical physics, and published more than seventy papers and books on the most varied subjects, with a predilection for the Théories of light and of electromagnetic waves." (DSB XI, p.51, 58).
- Lacks 2 plates; text partly yellowed; both vols. library stamp/ ticket on title-p.; bookplate on upper pastedown. Joints and spine-ends sl. rubbed.
= 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, 534-536.
- Backstrip worn/ sunned.
= Grinstein 256; Norman Library F54: "Freud described the psychological processes and techniques of jokes, which he likened to the processes and techniques of dream-work; discusses the purpose of jokes, distinguishing between harmless and tendentious ones; and established the psychogenesis of jokes in the young child's pleasure in playing with words as if they were objects. 1,050 copies of the first edition were printes, which took seven years to sell."
- Remnants of bookplate and contemp. owner's entry on upper pastedown, otherwise fine.
- Oxidation on microscope; glass inner lens sl. chipped; owner's stamp on inside lid.
= Rare Rotterdam microscope in working order. Box comprises i.a. 16 glass microscope slides by "Dumont Préparateur". With extra brass clamp and tubes, possibly from another miscroscope.
- First free endpaper and title-p. loose; paper sl. brittle. Lacks backstrip; frontcover loosening; backcover lacks lower corner.
= Etyudy seksual'noi biologii I. Eugen Steinach was an Austrian pioneering endocrinologist. He laid the basis for what would become transgender surgery.
- Lacks the plate showing the earth's layers opposite p.208; browned/ foxed; worldmap with sm. tear in fold; a few scattered wormholes. Outer boardedges and corners showing.
= A curious collection of trivia on natural phenomena, i.a. regarding astronomy, geology (i.a. volcanoes, geothermal springs), paleontology (i.a. a plate of mammoth teeth perceived as teeth of human giants), zoology, botany, but also on mummies and fantasy sea creatures and unicorns. Second Dutch translation of Medulla mirabilium naturæ. Das ist: Auserlesene, unter den Wundern der Natur (Sultzbach, 1679). First Dutch edition erroneously attributed by Van Doorninck/ De Kempenaer to Conrad van Magdeburg, which was adopted by Scheepers I, 569 and Van Gendt, Luza sale 1981, no. 648. On the worldmap Shirley 488: "An unusual feature is the placing of large lakes in the mountainous regions of the Alps, the Himalayas, the central Andes and southern Africa. In spite of the title the map does not indicate ocean currents and only three volcanoes, all emerging from the sea, are shown." Rare Dutch edition. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVIII.
- Stamp on title-p.; 2 parts cut out of first blank and restored w. paper; plates waterstained along inner blank margin, not touching text, otherwise internally fine. Frontcover chafed; joints starting; top of spine chipped.
- Annots. in ballpoint on title-p. = Cf. Bierens de Haan 4497.
AND 1 other: J.A. BORGNIS, Traité complet de mécanique appliquée aux beaux arts (...). Vol. 1 (Paris, 1818, 2 vols., text vol. and plate vol. w. 43 engr. plates, modern unif. hleather, 4to. Several plates lack (large) portion (restored)).
- Corner of wooden base dam.; sl. dustsoiled.
- Bindings w. minor imperfections. A good/ fine set.
- Cloth over covers sl. bubbly; spine-ends bumped. Otherwise fine.
- Bindings sl. scratched and chafed; text vol. sl. spotted. Internally fine.
= Nissen, ZBI 257: "The plates were produced by a mixed process of photographic transposing on to a metal plate (heliography) followed by handwork of various kinds - soft-ground etching, mezzotint and aquatint, the background tint being achieved by lithography". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVIII.
- All vols. w. owners' stamp(s) on (h)title/ first/ final text leaf; some vols. occas. sl. wormholed; a few lvs. partly torn/ w. owner's annots. All vols. spine-ends worn/ chipped; some vols. covers sl. chafed/ rubbed; 4 vols. joints splitting; one vol. title-piece dam. Not collated.
= A complete set consists of 52 vols. containing 619 plates. This lot compises: 1. Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière. Nouvelle edition, vols.1-5, 7-13 (1769-1770); 2. Histoire naturelle (...) des Oiseaux, vols.1-4, 9-18 (1770-1785); 3. Histoire naturelle des Minéraux, vols.1, 3-8 (1783-1787); 4. Histoire naturelle (...). Supplément, vols. 1-12 (1774-1782). Nissen, ZBI 673.
- Prelim. lvs. in vol. 2 misbound; occas. (sl.) foxed; all vols. owner's entry on (h)title.
= I. Zoogdieren; II. Vogels; III. Kruipende dieren, visschen, ongewervelde dieren. Nissen, ZBI II p.454; Landwehr, Dutch Books w. Col. Plates 47.
- Lacks frontisp.; bookplate on upper pastedown. Vellum sl. darkened/ stained.
- Both vols. upper right corner cut out of first free endpaper; occas. sl. foxed. Backstrips trifle rubbed.
= Nissen, ZBI 1887; Landwehr, Dutch Books w. Col. Plates 72.
- All plates w. sm. library blindstamp and occas. trifle yellowed.
= The third vol. of Hill's A general natural history (...) (1748-1752). Nissen, ZVB 1939.