1735 - 2048 NATURAL HISTORY, MEDICINE, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY etc.
- 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.
- 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.
- Trifle foxed. Cl. soiled; spine-ends and corners worn.
= On the measuring and consequentual calculations and technical drawing of bridge constructions. Rare.
- 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.
- Folded as issued. = Device for measuring the flowrate of rivers and other inland waterways.
- 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.
- 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").
- 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).
- 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).
- 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.
- Six vols. w. first free endpaper cut out; bookplate on upper pastedown; owner's entry on (verso) title-p.; occas. sl. foxed; vol. 1 and 6 lack general title-p. Extremities sl. worn.
= Comprises: 1. Het onstaan der soorten door de natuurlijke teeltkeus, of het bewaard blijven van bevoorrechte rassen in den strijd voor het bestaan (4th enl. and corr. ed.); 2. Het varieëren der huisdieren en cultuurplanten (2 vols.); 3. De afstamming van den mensch en de seksueele teeltkeus (2 vols.); 4. Het uitdrukken der gemoedsaandoeningen bij den mensch en de dieren (2nd enl. ed., hcl.); 5. De reis van de "Beagle". Dagboek van de onderzoekingen betreffende de natuurlijke geschiedenis en de geologie van de streken bezocht gedurende de reis van Hr. Ms. "Beagle".
- (Sl.) foxed. = Freeman 913. Second French ed.
- Both vols. (sl.) foxed.
= Freeman 912. Published in the same year as the first English edition. Bound by A. Lenègre, Paris.
Idem. L'expression des émotions chez l'homme et les animaux. French transl. S. Pozzi and R. Benoit. Ibid., idem, 1877, 2nd rev. ed., (4),VI,(2),404,(2),20(advert)p., 7 helio-engr. plates, woodengr. ills., orig. blindstamped gilt cl.
- Occas. sl. foxed. Binding trifle rubbed.
AND a duplicate copy of the last work.
- All vols. occas. sl. foxed. Sl. worn/ rubbed at spine-ends and extremities.
= Freeman 1058 and 662 (2nd transl. by E. Barbier).
- Occas. sl. foxed; vol. 1 partly w. lower corner sl. creased. Spine-ends sl. rubbed; vol. 2 joints splitting.
= Freeman 1058.
- Good untrimmed copies w. unopened lvs. and some occas. foxing.
= First French editions, translated by Édouard Heckel. Freeman 1265, 1296 and 1342.
- Second work (sl.) foxed. Good/ fine copies. = Freeman 310 and 1403.
- Occas. sl. foxed. Ex-libr. copy: stamp on first free endpaper and textleaf; covers plasticised; shelftickets on spine.
= Rare. Copy of the 2nd enl. and corr. Dutch ed. (1869; 1st ed. 1864) of Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859). Cf. Freeman 595 (= 649).
Idem. De reis van de "Beagle". Dagboek van de onderzoekingen betreffende de natuurlijke geschiedenis en de geologie van de streken bezocht gedurende de reis van Hr. Ms. "Beagle". Ed. H. Hartogh Heys van Zouteveen and T.C. Winkler. Arnh./ Nijm., E. & M. Cohen, n.d. (1891), 1st Dutch ed., (3),VII,(1),568p., woodengr. plates/ ills., contemp. giltlettered hcl.
- First and final few lvs. sl. foxed. Backstrip sunned. A good/ fine copy.
= Freeman 176. Vol. 7 of "Darwin's Biologische Meesterwerken".
- Lower hinge broken; sl. foxed. Joints splitting; sl. worn at extremities.
= Freeman 661. The 7th French language edition and the 1st in translation by E. Barbier. "There were also difficulties with the first French [translation]. (...) He [Darwin] was not really happy until the third translation by Édouard Barbier appeared in 1876" (Freeman p.84).
- Occas. sl. foxed. Cloth trifle stained. A good/ fine copy. = Rare. Freeman 1237.