2564 - 2724 NATURAL HISTORY, MEDICINE, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, TRANSPORT etc.
- Frontisp. and several leaves (finger)soiled in margins; (sl.) foxed/ spotted, mainly in first half of the volume; 1 textp. w. inkstain; the plate of the female nude body w. contemp. added pubic hair and short annot. in pen and ink; one plate sl. stained; plate no. 55 w. neatly closed large tear in image and a few plates w. neatly closed small tear in blank margin; new endpapers. Binding worn along extremities; joints starting but holding well.
= The second Dutch edition, originally published in Latin in 1685 (Bibl. Walleriana 1039; Krivatsky 1239; Choulant p.93-95). This edition not in the usual bibliographies. Splendid baroque anatomical atlas. "For Lairesse, the anatomical illustrations Bidloo asked him to undertake were an occasion for an artistic meditation on anatomy: he displayed his figures in an emotional, almost tender manner, contrasting the raw dissected parts with the full, soft surfaces of uncut flesh, placing flayed, bound figures in ordinary nightclothes or bedding, setting ordinary household objects such as books, jars or cabinets in the same scene as cut-up torsos or limbs, and in one plate showing a fly crawling on an opened abdomen. His illustrations brought the qualities of Dutch still-life painting into anatomical illustration, and gave a new, darker spiritual expression to the significance of the act of dissection." (Norman Library no. 231); "These are masterpieces of Dutch baroque art. When William of Orange came to England in 1688, Bidloo was chosen to accompany him as his physician." (Garrison/ Morton 385 (Latin ed.)).
- Occas. sl. foxed; the plates sl. yellowed and fingersoiled. Lacks backstrip; covers reattached; in need of rebinding.
= BMN I, p.86; cf. Wellcome II, p.185 (German ed.). Rare anatomical atlas, first published Leipsic, 1841.
- Without the text vol.; one plate loose; one plate corner reattached w. scotch tape; sl. foxed; title-p. creased.
- Libr. stamps on first free endpaper and on title-p.; vol.I/ 4 traces of ticket at foot of spine. Otherwise fine.
- Contents loose(ning); plates occas. sl. dampstained and dustsoiled. Wrappers rather heavily soiled/ stained, worn and loose(ning).
= Wellcome III, p.531; cf. Waller 5950. This ed. with the plates and text published together. Early editions have the text published separately in two 8vo vols.
- Top of spines sl. worn/ chipped. = A final vol. was published in 1960.
- First half waterst. in lower inner margin; a few old owner's entries; title sl. foxed.
= BMN I, p.86; not in Choulant, Frank, Waller. On the translator, cf. Hirsch II, p.476. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLV.
- Occas. trifle foxed. Backstrip worn. = BMN I, p.99. Rare.
- Backstrips worn/ dam. Contents fine.
Spalteholz, W. Handatlas der Anatomie des Menschen. Leipsic, S. Hirzel, 1932, 13th ed., 3 vols., w. continous pagination, VI,(2),975,(4)p., 1084 (col.) ills., orig. unif. giltlettered cl.
- All vols. w. owner's entry on first free endpaper.
AND a fine set of A. BENNINGHOFF and K. GOERTTLER, Lehrbuch der Anatomie der Menschen (Munich/ Berlin/ Vienna, 1968, 3 vols., num. (col.) plates/ ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr. Spine of one dustwr. some traces of nibbling by silverfish).
- Lacks 1 plate in 3rd vol.; 3 plates w. (large) tear extending into image.
= Translation of Histoire naturelle de l'univers (Paris 1734). For the French edition, see Caillet 2507; Ferguson II, p.15 note; Poggendorff I, p.467. Rare.
- Top of spine bumped/ dented.
= Willem Gleuns Jr. taught mathematics and geography in Groningen. His invention the Mundomotorium, intended for astronomy education, was deemed scientifically incorrect at the time, and was therefore never taken into production. Curious and very rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLV.
- A few p. sl. browned/ foxed. Binding rubbed/ sl. worn; spine-ends dam. Good copy.
= The very rare first Dutch edition of the Cosmostheoros, published one year after the first edition, in Latin (The Hague, 1698). Hoogendoorn Huy17D 1. "Huygens considered his theories about life on other planets and about the existence of beings comparable to man. These theories were expounded in his 'Cosmotheoros'. (...) In contrast to most other Huygensian writings, Cosmostheoros had wide appeal and a broad readership, and has been translated into several languages." (DSB VI, p.611). With 2 extra plates from the 2nd (1717) ed. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLVI.
- Ranger VIII and IX spine-ends dam.
Nesmeanov, A. (introd.). Pervye fotografii obratnoi storony luny (First photographs of the far side of the moon). Moscow, Akademia Nauk SSSR, 1959, 33,(3)p., 4 plates, ills., orig. giltlettered blindst. cl., 4to. - AND 1 other: H.A.G. LEWIS, The Times Atlas of the Moon (London, 1969, lunar maps, ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., folio).
= Commemorative album presented to Rob Lenterman upon his resignation as director of Maastrcht Aachen Airport.
= Airlines, aircraft manufacturers and planes, i.a. Aeroflot, Auster Aircraft, Avro Athena, Avro Shackleton, Bristol Britannia, Fairey Aviation, Ford, KLM, Saab and Sabena.
- Spine sl. rubbed. A fine copy.
= DSB I, p.203-204. J.H. Blumenbach (1752-1840) was the founder of scientific anthropology (i.a. based on comparative anatomy and geology). "Blumenbach was one of the earliest thinkers to recognize the "historicalness" of nature, and therefore occupies an important place in the history of evolution theory." (DSB).
- The 2nd vol. only, complete in itself. Occas. sl. foxed.
= Nissen, BBI 2221; Landwehr, Dutch books w. col. plates 14.
- Lacks title and 4 text lvs. w. 5 ills.; prelim. lvs. bound at the end; fingersoiled and stained; partly waterst. and sl. mouldy in upper margin. Binding worn and soiled. Sold w.a.f.
= Nissen, BBI 179; Pritzel 859.
- Owner's entry on first free endpaper. Boardedges rubbed; spine-ends chipped. = Not in Nissen.