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.

80 2351 Botany Michaux F A and Nuttall Th

80 2351 Botany Michaux F A and Nuttall Th

80 2351 Botany Michaux F A and Nuttall Th

80 2351 Botany Michaux F A and Nuttall Th

80 2351 Botany Michaux F A and Nuttall Th

- New endpapers; lvs. occas. sl. browned/ foxed. Rebacked w. use of the original backstrip.

= Nissen BBI, 1361 and 1458. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIX.

80 2352 Botany Munting A

80 2352 Botany Munting A

80 2352 Botany Munting A

80 2352 Botany Munting A

- A few plates loose(ning) and/ or sl. spotted; occas. trifle yellowed. Backstrip dam. and partly loose(ning); covers rubbed; corners showing.

= Nissen, BBI 1428; Pritzel 6556; De Belder 252. The unusual plates depict plants set in or floating above landscape backgrounds. "The plates are as curious as their subjects. They commonly present the plants far larger than life, oranges huge as pumpkins, cyclamens with heavy corms floating lightly in mid-air, gentle geraniums grown into giant trees. The effect is obtained through sketching in classical or idyllic [including some very Dutch views] or mountainous little landscapes below." (Hunt 404). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIX.

80 2353 Botany Sherard W ed

80 2353 Botany Sherard W ed

- Lacks p.131-134. Annot. on title-p. partly erased 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.

80 2354 Botany Thomé O W

- All vols. w. signature on htitle in pen and ink; vol. 2 upper hinge broken. Sl. rubbed along extremities.

= Nissen, BBI 1947.

80 2355 Botany Thornton R J

- Contemp. annots. on final blank; hinges weak; sm. bookbinder's ticket on upper pastedown ("Bound bij Rea Northampton"). Joints starting.

80 2356 Botany Voget A R L

80 2356 Botany Voget A R L

80 2356 Botany Voget A R L

- Partly vaguely waterst. in upper margin; 1 plate sl. yellowed. Extremities sl. worn.

= Rare. Not in Pritzel and Nissen, BBI.

80 2357 Botany Voorhelm G

- Lacks, as usual/ always(?) in the second edition, leaf *3 (this was the dedication to Marco comte d'Odescalqui in the first edition and has been omitted in this edition); owner's stamp on first free endpaper and library stamp and ticket on title; 1 fold. plate w. old repaired tear; first ±20p. w. brown stain in blank margin. Lacks portion at foot of spine and frontwrapper.

= Pritzel 9852; Nissen, BBI 2079N; Krelage p.586, 605, 608 and passim. On the author at length T.T. Mantel, ''Waardevol oud papier uit Haarlem''. In: Waardevol oud papier. Haarlem, 1996, p.215-228. Ex libris Med. Dr. C. Rasch. With contemp. owner's entry on the title-p.: "Bibliotheca monasterii Sancti Martini Tornaci dedicavit R.D. Baclow supprior 1776".

80 2358 Botany Weinmann J W

80 2358 Botany Weinmann J W

80 2358 Botany Weinmann J W

80 2358 Botany Weinmann J W

80 2358 Botany Weinmann J W

80 2358 Botany Weinmann J W

80 2358 Botany Weinmann J W

80 2358 Botany Weinmann J W

80 2358 Botany Weinmann J W

80 2358 Botany Weinmann J W

80 2358 Botany Weinmann J W

80 2358 Botany Weinmann J W

80 2358 Botany Weinmann J W

80 2358 Botany Weinmann J W

80 2358 Botany Weinmann J W

- Almost all plates in fine condition. Eight plates sl. waterstained in upper outer corner.of image; a few of the plates showing fruit show sl. traces of sticking to verso of opposite plate; two of the fruit plates have a thumbnail size stain. A complete set contains 1025 plates and 2 portraits (the latter not present in our copy). Bindings rubbed/ sl. worn.

= First and only Dutch edition of the florilegium "Phytanthoza iconographia" (first Latin 1737-1745) by the German apothecary and botanist from Regensburg J.W. Weinmann (1683-1741), a work that stood out for its use of a new technique used for the plates: "The copperplates (...) were printed according to Johannes Teyler's invention, patented 1688; they are engraved in combination with mezzotint printed in colour and finished by hand" (Landwehr 212). The three volumes of this lot form an important part of an immense project in which a young and then still unknown botanist and artist called Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770), could show his artistic genius for the first time. Due a disagreement with Weinmann (who refused to pay him in full for the work he had done in his first year), he left his job and soon found a better place in England to develop his botanical knowledge and artistry. Nissen, BBI 2126; Pritzel 10140. SEE ILLUSTRATION ON FRONTCOVER.

80 2359 Buffon G L L de

- Lacks 28 plates. Backstrips browned; bindings trifle worn. = Nissen, ZBI 673.

80 2361 Cars Adcock I

= "The Bentley Continental R is a luxury coupé manufactured by British automobile manufacturer Bentley Motors from 1991 to 2003. (...) The Continental R was the fastest, most expensive, and most powerful Bentley automobile of its day. It was also the most expensive production car in the world at its introduction." (Wikipedia).

80/2362 Civil engineering Aftekening van den Stroom meter tot het neemen der Proeven wegens de Snelheid van den Stroom

- Folded as issued. = Device for measuring the flowrate of rivers and other inland waterways.