2075 - 2373 NATURAL HISTORY, MEDICINE, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY etc.
78 2135 Botany Sherard W ed 
78 2135 Botany Sherard W ed 
- Lacks p.131-134. Annot. on title-p. partly errased w. loss of editor's name; first and final lvs. sl. wormholed; hinges broken; a few lvs. loose(ning); partly browned; occas. sl. foxed/ stained. Vellum over covers renewed; sl. stained.
= In this very rare publication, the English botanist William Sherard (1659-1728) catalogues the plants in the Jardin du Roi (the royal gardens of Louis XIV) and the Leyden University botanical garden, studied by resp. Joseph Pitton de Tournefort and Paul Hermann, whose observations ultimately resulted in their principal works: Eléments de botanique (Paris, 1694) and Paradisus batavus (Leyden, 1698). Year of publication noted on title page as "MDCXIC", which STCN interprets as 1691. ODNB; Davy de Virville, Histoire de la Botanique en France (Paris, 1954), p.43.
78 2136 Botany Sowerby J E and Smith J E 
78 2136 Botany Sowerby J E and Smith J E 
78 2136 Botany Sowerby J E and Smith J E 
78 2136 Botany Sowerby J E and Smith J E 
- All vols. remnants of bookplate on upper pastedown; all plates w. contemp. owner's annots.; occas. (sl.) foxed; all title-p. upper outer corner cut off; first vol. bookblock loose. Spines sunned; first vol. backstrip torn along joints at top of spine; 1 vol. spine dam.
= Nissen, BBI 2225.
78 2137 Botany Vries H de 
- First vol. bookblock broken and wrs. loose. All vols. spines worn/ dam.
= With AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION on p.1 of the first installment. Horblit 73b; PMM 356; DSB XIV, p.95-105; Garrison/ Morton 240: "Mendel's fundamental work was overlooked until 1900, when De Vries and others brought it into prominence and confirmed it in every respect."
78 2138 Botany Zorn J 
78 2138 Botany Zorn J 
78 2138 Botany Zorn J 
78 2138 Botany Zorn J 
78 2138 Botany Zorn J 
78 2138 Botany Zorn J 
- Vol. III lacks 29 plates, 2 plates loose and a few textleaves lacking (all other vols. complete); first 2 vols. occas. trifle foxed; one textleaf at the end of vol. IV w. closed tear. All bindings sl. rubbed/ sl. worn along extremities; paper over frontcover of vol. II dam.; vol. VI lacks one letterpiece.
= Nissen, BBI 2203; Pritzel 4502. Landwehr, Dutch Books w. Col. Plates 2. Dutch edition of Zorn's Icones Plantarum Medicinalium. Beautiful, well coloured plates. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LIV.
78 2139 Boyle R 
78 2139 Boyle R 
- Large brown/ waterstain in blank upper inner margin causing severe deterioration of paper throughout and some lvs. loose(ning); new endpapers; sl. later owner's entry in pen and ink on verso of the Steno title; ticket and owner's entry in pen and ink from the library of "Buitenzorgsche loge" and w. Japanese stamp(?) on first free endpaper. Sold w.a.f.
= This edition of Boyle's important work on effluviums comprises 3 parts, of which the 1st part is subsequently divided in 5 parts, each having a separate title: 1. Strange subtitly of effluviums 2. Determinate nature of effluviums 3. Great efficacy of effluviums 4. New experiments to make fire and flame ponderable 5. A discovery of the perviousness of glass. The 2nd part is an essay on the origins and virtue of gems by Boyle and the 3rd part is an English translation of Steensen's work on solids (1st ed. De Solido intra solidum naturaliter contento, Florence, 1669) (these parts erroneously paginated but complete). This edition contains the title-page to part 1 as the 2nd preliminary leaf described under Fulton 106 as well as the title-p. described under 107. Fulton 107; PMM 141; Wing 3952. "Effluviums is one of the most important but perhaps less widely known works of Boyle and a most significant one. Had Boyle been bolder in his conclusions which he drew from his experiments on oxidisation, he would have forestalled phlogiston theory which was problematic to chemistry in the eighteenth century." (Fulton).
78 2140 Buffon G L L de 
- The plates only; without the first installment containing 6 plates; occas. foxed/ (water)stained.
= Near complete set of nicely handcol. plates in the rare orig. installment wrappers. Nissen, ZBI 696. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LIV.
78 2141 Buffon G L L de 
78 2141 Buffon G L L de 
78 2141 Buffon G L L de 
78 2141 Buffon G L L de 
78 2141 Buffon G L L de 
- All vols. owner's stamp/ entry on first free endpaper; (sl.) foxed throughout. A few vols. spine sl. rubbed/ stained.
= The first collected Belgian edition. Nissen, ZBI 689 (calls for 733 plates, w. a slightly diff. collation). Good set.
78 2142 Buijs J and Uilkens J A 
- Backwr. waterstained; final lvs. sl. dampstained in outer margin.
= Buijnsters 556; Ki.la.ki.le. 104; Bierens de Haan 713 (gives 1798 as year of publication). The work consists of 4 "stukjens" divided over two parts. Influential schoolbook.
(Oordt, J.W.L. van). Volks-, wis- en werktuigkundig lees- en leerboek. Amst., Erven H. van Munster and J. van der Hey, 1839, IV,307p., 3 fold. lithogr. plates, (fold.) tables, contemp. hmor.
- Lacks first free endpaper and/ or htitle; a few owner's stamps on title-p. and pastedowns. Rebacked.
78/2143 Cars Parts Catalogue for the 1954 57 Land Rover 
- Sl. dogeared. Binding worn. = Technical Publication No. TP155/C.
AND 7 others, i.a. by Citroën, Renault and Morris Minor.
78 2144 Chenu J C 
- Sl. foxed and browned. Joints split(ting).
AND 5 others, i.a. H.C. OERSTED, Der Geist in der Natur (Leipsic, 1854, new ed., 2 vols., steelengr. frontisp. portrait, contemp. unif. boards).
78 2145 Chomsky N 
- Owner's entry on htitle.
= No.4 in the series Janua Linguarum. The corrected 2nd printing (?) or binding, still without the list of other titles of the series, but with the preface correctly bound before the introduction. One of the most influental scientific works of the 20th century by one of its leading intellectuals. Regarded as a revolution in the field of linguistics and cognitive science, as it changed the understanding of language.
78/2146 Civil engineering Annales des Ponts et Chaussées 1ére Série 2e Série 
78/2146 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.
78 2147 Civil engineering Bélidor B F de 
78 2147 Civil engineering Bélidor B F de 
78 2147 Civil engineering Bélidor B F de 
78 2147 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."
78 2148 Civil engineering Prony G C F M R de 
- 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.
78 2149 Civil engineering Suez Canal Lesseps F 
- All vols. w. the same library stamp on title. All but one vol. spine strengthened.
= With AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION on htitle "Sixième Serie". PMM 339; Norman, 1336. "In 1832, while quarantined on his voyage to Alexandria to take up the post of vice-consul, de Lesseps passed the time by reading a copy of Lepère's report to Napoleon on the practicability of a canal connecting the Mediterranean with the Red Sea. Having befriended Mohammed Said, the viceroy's son and later himself viceroy, during his time in Egypt, on his resignation from the consular service in 1854 de Lesseps obtained the concession for the construction of a canal across the Isthmus of Suez. Undeterred by the practical and political objections he set about seeking capital to finance the project; "In this treatise of nearly three hundred pages, with maps... he set out the whole case for the canal and his proposed method of building it. He secured the support of Napoleon III and raised a capital of two hundred million francs. Construction was begun in 1859 and completed ten years later" (PMM).
WITH: a small archive concerning the construction of the Suez Canal, dated between 1864 and 1867, consisting of i.a. lithographed copies of manuscript documents, two manuscript letters signed by F.P. VOISIN and a manuscript profile drawing of the canal from the "Côte Afrique" to the "Côte Asie", kept together in contemp. red hmor. album, folio.
- All but four documents mounted along left margin in album with some remnants of glue occas. visible.
= Comprising i.a. two manuscript letters SIGNED by F.P. VOISIN, the chief engineer for the Suez Canal Company, one regarding meetings in June and August 1864 and one addressed to Mr. Laroche, chief engineer in Port Said, ordering him to do all to prepare the Suez Canal as indicated by the scientific research done ((2)p., dated "7 Octobre 1864"); one large drawing in red and black pen and ink showing the canal's profile with height calculations ("Profil", 60x47 cm.); 18 lithogr. "Ordre de Service", numb. "1" to "18" by the Direction générale des Travaux from the Compagnie universelle de Canal maritime de Suez (signed in lithography by F. LESSEPS and F.P. VOISIN), each approx. 2-3 lvs., dated between 1863-1866 and 10 lithogr. "Instructions" in similar style.
78 2150 The Collected Papers of Lord Rutherford of Nelson Ed J Chadwick 
78 2151 Curie P 
78 2151 Curie P 
- Small stamp "Offert par la Société Française de Physique" on htitle; owner's entry on title and frontcover. Frontwrapper detached; bookblock broken.
= 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."
78 2152 Cuvier G ed 
- Lower corner waterstained throughout (occas. touching text); sl. foxed. Binding worn.
= First edition of the work describing the development of natural science under the Directorat, especially under Napoleon.
78 2153 Darwin C 
78 2153 Darwin C 
- Hinges weak; owner's entry on upper pastedown/ htitle; occas. sl. foxed. = Freeman 656.
Idem. The Foundations of the Origin of Species. Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844. Ed. F. Darwin. Cambridge, at the University Press, 1909, XXVII,(1),263p., photogr. facs. portrait, contemp. cloth w. gilt coat of arms of EYE GRAMMAR SCHOOL on frontcover.
- Top of spine chipped. Contents fine.
= With "Miller Prize for French (Upper School)", dated 1926-1927 and awarded to Elsie Alderton, after whom the character of obsessive would-be writer Laura Wissilcraft in Henry W. Williamson's novel The Gale of the World (1969) was modelled. Freeman 1556.
AND 1 other on the same: R.B. FREEMAN, The Works of Charles Darwin (London, 1965, orig. cl. w. (dam.) dustwr.).
78 2154 Desarces H 
78 2154 Desarces H 
78 2154 Desarces H 
78 2154 Desarces H 
- Fine copies. = Contains several spectacular multi-layered plates of cars, trains, engines etc.