2323 - 2571 NATURAL HISTORY, HORSES AND HORSEMANSHIP, HUNTING, MEDICINE, TECHNOLOGY etc.
80 2363 Civil engineering Annales des Ponts et Chaussées 1ére Série 2e Série 
80 2363 Civil engineering Annales des Ponts et Chaussées 1ére Série 2e Série 
80 2363 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.
80 2364 Coaches Thomas B 
- The plates sl. foxed. Portfolio badly waterst.
80 2365 Conchology Rumphius G E 
80 2365 Conchology Rumphius G E 
80 2365 Conchology Rumphius G E 
80 2365 Conchology Rumphius G E 
- Most plates sl. waterst. in lower right corner; top margin repaired w. paper; 6x dam. w. loss of portion of the image (5x supplemented w. pen and ink).
= Landwehr, VOC 591; Nissen, ZBI 3518; Ruinen 26. Fine plates in strong impression of shellfish, minerals, shells, stones and curiosities found on Ambon, where George Everhard Rumphius lived from 1653 until his death in 1702, in the service of the VOC.
80 2366 Darwin C 
80 2366 Darwin C 
80 2366 Darwin C 
80 2366 Darwin C 
- Both vols. occas. sl. foxed. Spine-ends sl. rubbed; 1st vol. joints splitting; 2nd vol. frontcover sl. stained.
= Freeman 181 (2nd French transl.) and 1342.
Idem. La descendance de l'homme et la sélection sexuelle. French transl. J.J. Moulinié. Introd. C. Vogt. Paris, C. Reinwald et Cie., 1872, 1st French ed., 2 vols., (4),XV,(1),452,24(publ. cat.); (4),III,(1),494,(1)p., 76 woodengr. ills., orig. unif. gilt green cl. by LENÈGRE.
- Occas. sl. foxed; vol. 1 partly w. lower corner sl. creased. Spine-ends sl. rubbed; vol. 2 joints splitting.
= Freeman 1058.
80 2367 Darwin C Spencer H 
- Vol. 2 hinges sl. weak; a few lvs. loose. Spine-ends sl. rubbed.
= Principal work of Social Darwinism, in which Herbert Spencer coins the expression "survival of the fittest" applying Darwin's biological theories to his own economic ones: "This survival of the fittest, which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called 'natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.'" (vol. 1, p.530f).
80 2368 Diderot D and d'Alembert J 
80 2368 Diderot D and d'Alembert J 
80 2368 Diderot D and d'Alembert J 
- First plate w. sm. cancel stamp in lower blank margin. Contents fine. Binding worn.
= Plates illustrating the following subjects: Eperonnier (14 (of 16) plates; lacks the textpages); Epinglier (3 plates; one sl. stained); Éventailliste (4 plates); Fayancerie (12 plates); Ferblantier (2 plates); Fil et Laine (5 plates); Fleuriste et Artificiel (8 plates); Forges ou art du fer (51 plates); Formier (4 plates); Fourbisseur (10 plates); Fourreur (6 plates); Gainier (6 plates); Gantier (5 plates); Manufacture de Glaces (46 (of 47) plates); Horlogerie (64 plates).
80 2369 Diderot D and d'Alembert J 
80 2369 Diderot D and d'Alembert J 
80 2369 Diderot D and d'Alembert J 
- Upper hinge broken; bookblock loose; plates occas. sl. yellowed (mostly in blank margins); 1 plate lower outer corner blank margin torn off; owners' stamps on title-p. and upper pastedown. Binding rubbed/ worn; spine-ends dam.
= Sections include "Orfèvre-Bijoutier", "Parfumeur", "Paulmier-Raquetier", "Perruquier-Barbier", "Poudre à canon", "Sucrerie", "Tireur d'Or" and "Tonnelier".
80 2370 Dodonaeus R 
80 2370 Dodonaeus R 
80 2370 Dodonaeus R 
80 2370 Dodonaeus R 
80 2370 Dodonaeus R 
80 2370 Dodonaeus R 
80 2370 Dodonaeus R 
- Htitle and engr. title sl. creased and w. sl. silverfish dam. in (blank) margins; some repairs w. Japanese paper, mostly to (h)title and index; 2 textlvs. corners restored; partly sl. waterstained, mostly in outer corner(s); index w. occas. owner's annots.; a few scattered inkstains.
= Pages 318-790 w. handcoloured woodcuts. Nissen, BBI 518; Pritzel 2345; Stafleu 1492; Bibl. Belg. D121. The third and last Dutch edition of Dodoens' Cruydt-Boeck. This enlarged edition contains 14 new woodcuts. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIX.
80 2371 Dogs Bylandt H A van 
- Joints rubbed; upper joint splitting at foot; frontcover sl. stained.
= Thiébaud p.142. From the library of Queen Emma of the Netherlands, with her bookplate on upper pastedown.
Leighton, R. (ed.). The New Book of the Dog. A Comprehensive Natural History of British Dogs and their Foreign Relatives, with Chapters on Law, Breeding, Kennel Management, and Veterinary Treatment. London etc., Cassell and Company, 1907, XVI,(2),624p., 21 col. plates, num. ills., orig. gilt embossed and dec. cl., a.e.g., 4to.
- Bookblock broken; contents loose(ning). Binding sl. worn; backstrip discoloured.
= Jones, Bibl. of the Dog 240.
AND 2 others, i.a. A.J. SEWELL and F.W. COUSENS, The Dog's Medical Dictionary (London, 1932, reprint ed., orig. cl.).
80 2372 Dogs Shaw V 
80 2372 Dogs Shaw V 
- Joints and spine-ends trifle rubbed. A fine set.
= Cf. Jones, Bibl. of the Dog 261 (ed. London/ New York, 1881); Nissen, ZBI 3843. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXX.
80 2373 Engineering Leupold J 
80 2373 Engineering Leupold J 
80 2373 Engineering Leupold J 
80 2373 Engineering Leupold J 
- Contents fine. Upper joint splitting; binding worn along extremities; leather of spine-ends worn away.
80 2374 Entomology L'Admiral J 
80 2374 Entomology L'Admiral J 
80 2374 Entomology L'Admiral J 
- Bookplate of Zyltra-Buis on upper pastedown; sm. number of pages w. vague waterstain in upper blank margin; blank portion torn from upper left corner of 1 plate; 1 textp. trifle stained. Contents good with the plates in fine condition and colouring. Spine-ends dam. and split on upper joint; binding sl. worn.
= Horn-Schenkling 153; Landwehr, Col. Plates 105; Nissen, ZBI 2358. The second, enlarged edition. The plates showing the insects and their metamorphoses in their natural surroundings. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXX.
80 2375 Entomology Donovan E 
80 2375 Entomology Donovan E 
80 2375 Entomology Donovan E 
80 2375 Entomology Donovan E 
80 2375 Entomology Donovan E 
- Occas. trifle foxed; protective flimsies over plates occas. w. offsetting from colouring. Otherwise a fine copy.
= One of the finest works on the entomology of China. Horn-Schenkling 4951; Nissen, ZBI 1143. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXI
80 2376 Entomology Frisch J L 
80 2376 Entomology Frisch J L 
- Bookplates, stamp, owner's entry/ annot. on first endpaper and stamp on first title-p.; occas. sl. yellowed/ browned; contents otherwise fine. Shelfticket on spine; sl. worn; corners showing.
= Parts 3 and 7-13 in 1st ed.; parts 2 and 4-6 in 2nd ed.; part 1 in 3rd ed. In this "first important German treatise on insects" (Miall, p.240), the linguist, entomo- and ornithologist Johann Leonard Frisch (1666-1743) describes in detail ±300 different insects accomp. by his own drawings (partly engraved by his son Philip Jacob). Nissen, ZBI 1436; Hagen I, 254; Horn-Schenkling 7135.
80 2377 Entomology Goedaerdt J 
80 2377 Entomology Goedaerdt J 
80 2377 Entomology Goedaerdt J 
80 2377 Entomology Goedaerdt J 
- Lacks 2 engr. titles (1x cut out) and the portrait of Goedaerdt. Partly sl. waterst. and (1 vol.) sl. blue/ green stained (sl. affecting a few plates). Bindings worn; backstrips dam. (1x almost loose).
= Beaart p.76ff (esp. 89f); Landwehr, Dutch Books w. Col. Plates 64 and p.24f; Nissen, ZBI 1603; cf. Horn/ Schenkling 8017; BMN II, p.215. "First edition of the first basic work on entomology. It is also the first colour plate book in the Low Countries" (Landwehr, p.93). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXI.
80 2378 Entomology Goedaerdt J 
80 2378 Entomology Goedaerdt J 
80 2378 Entomology Goedaerdt J 
- Lacks plate Q and Z; some (other) plates and pages loosely inserted; fold. plates browned on fold, one w. frayed edges; endpapers unglued; plate Y w. tear (2-3 cm.). Vellum soiled.
= Nissen, ZBI 1603; Beaart, p.104ff. With 6 extra plates (from vol. 1) loosely inserted: plates numb. VIII, XIV, XXIV, LVI, LXVII and one plate marked L/ LI/ LII.
80 2379 Entomology Harris T W 
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AND 8 others, all richly illustrated w. (handcol.) engr. plates, all but one on British lepidoptera, i.a. 5 vols. by J.G. WOOD, all publ. in London, all in orig. gilt pict. cl.
80 2380 Entomology Jardine W ed 
80 2380 Entomology Jardine W ed 
= I. Introduction to Entomology; II. Beetles; III. British Butterflies; IV. British Moths, Sphinxes, &c.; V. Foreign Butterflies; VI. Bees; VII. Exotic Moths. Nissen ZBI 1202 (and 2094 (on bees)); Horn-Schenkling I, p.299; British Bee Books 236.
80 2381 Entomology Lyonet P 
80 2381 Entomology Lyonet P 
80 2381 Entomology Lyonet P 
80 2381 Entomology Lyonet P 
80 2381 Entomology Lyonet P 
- Upper and lower hinge strengthened w. marbled paper; occas. sl. stained/ foxed (sl. affecting a few plates); tipped-in 19th-cent. lithogr. portrait of Lyonet; bookplate on first free endpaper. Spine restored w. modern leather; covers sl. faded/ rubbed/ w. remnants of tape.
= Rare. Nissen ZBI 2618; Garrison/ Morton 305; Horn/ Schenkling p.772; DSB VIII, p.579f. "Lyonet's great monograph on the goat moth caterpillar remains today among the greatest examples of anatomical examination." (Garrison/ Morton). "Traité anatomique is devoted wholly to the anatomy of the caterpillar (...) and the plates, drawn and engraved by Lyonet, portray the muscles, nerves, bronchia, heart, viscera, silk vessels, and the internal parts of the head with astonishing precision". (DSB). In this second edition, Lyonet added a plate of his well-known microscope. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXI.
= Facsimile reprint of the ed. Amst., 1705, the plates reproducing the original paintings hanging in the Royal Library of Windsor Castle. Text vol. by E. RÜCKER and W.T. STEARN. Very fine.