2073 - 2370 NATURAL HISTORY, MEDICINE, SCIENCE, TRANSPORT, TECHNOLOGY etc.
- Lacks frontisp.; the plates loose; occas. sl. foxed. = Rare.
- Two index lvs. lack lower corner; sm. tear along lower inner margin title. Frontcover and backstrip chafed.
= Unnumbered copy, bound in cloth: "File copy only, ex series" in green pen on colophon.
- Lacks 2 plates; contemp. owner's entry and tipped-in catalogue entry on first blank. Backstrip professionally restored.
= Choulant 60f; Hirsch/ H.1, p.91; Bibl. Walleriana 337 (incompl.); Wellcome II, p.26; Garrison/ Morton 399: "Albinus was one of the greatest anatomical illustrators of the 18th century; his illustrations of the bones and muscles were noted for their beauty and accuracy and his work established a new standard in anatomical illustration". The first edition.
- 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.)). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLIX.
- Backstrip worn.
= Very rare work on doorways, not in the usual reference works. The author is most probably Hendrick Kramer, town mason of Amsterdam. Contains an extra plate showing a funerary monument, seemingly from a different series.
= Houzeau/ Lancaster I, 8991.
- Title-p. and final textleaf browned; partly (sl.) waterstained (esp. first 4 textleaves); 1 fold. plate repaired on fold. Binding dam. (lacks backstrip and most of paper over covers).
= Copy with 4 extra fold. engr. plates (numb. "I" to "IIII") from an unidentified work, showing the solar system in various aspects. Our copy is without the portrait, of which Hoogendoorn says (under LansPo7.1): "The portrait of the author at age 67 is not always present"; Bierens de Haan 2666; Poggendorff I 1373. ''In his Progymnasmatum astronomiae restitutae de motu solis (Middelburg, 1619) Van Lansberge taught the probability of the earth's motion according to the Copernican doctrine; the same is true of Bedenckingen op den dagelyckschen, ende jaerlyckschen loop van den aerdt-kloot (Middelburg, 1629), translated into Latin by M. Hortensius as Commentationes in motum terrae diurnum, et annuum (Middelburg, 1630)'' (DSB, p.28). No copy traced in the JAP. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLIX.
= Facs. reprint of the edition London, 1796-1800, cataloguing the private library of the English naturalist and botanist Joseph Banks (1743-1820). Comprises: I. Scriptores Generales; II. Zoologi; III. Botanici; IV. Mineralogi; V. Supplementum et index auctorum.
Cobres, J.P. Deliciae Cobresianae. Büchersammlung zur Naturgeschichte. Amst., A. Asher & Co., 1966, 2 vols., (8),XXVIII,470; (6),471-956,(1)p., 2 frontisp., orig. unif. giltlettered cl.
= Facs. reprint of the edition Augsburg, 1782.
Rivinus, A.Q. Bibliotheca Riviniana sive Catalogus librorum philologico-philosophico-historicorum, itinerariorum, inprimis autem medicorum, botanicorum et historiae naturalis scriptorum &c. rariorum. Ibid., idem, 1966, (22),740,(107)p., portrait, orig. giltlettered cl.
= Facs. reprint of the edition Leipsic, 1727.
= First edition of this rare work. Defence written by Bergsträsser against the claim by the French that Claude Chappe was the inventor of the visual telegraphic system. Poggendorf I, p.152.
- Vol. 2 prelim. lvs. trifle wormholed in blank margin. Bindings sl. worn/ rubbed.
= Wellcome II, p.200; Pritzel 982; Heirs of Hippocrates 947; Garrison/ Morton 472: "Bonnets theory of generation offered the best synthesis of 18th century ideas of development and remained a leading authority until von Baer. Bonnet believed in the preformation of the embryo."
- Ad 1: partly sl. yellowed/ browned. Joints starting; spine-ends dam. Ad 2: bookplates on upper pastedown; contents fine. Shelftickets on spine; 2 corners showing.
= Ad 1: Pritzel 983; cf. Wellcome II, p.200 (later eds.). Ad 2: Pritzel 982; Wellcome II, p.200; Heirs of Hippocrates 947; Garrison/ Morton 472.
- Contents fine. Spine-ends dam.; upper joint worn/ splitting; sm. paper ticket on frontcover.
= Cf. Henrey II, p.443f (1st ed.); Hunt 452 (1st ed.): "This was the first treatise on cuttings and graftings, and it made Agricola famous". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLIX.
BOUND WITH: Vallemont, P. Naauw-keurige waarneemingen ontrent de seldsaamheeden en uitwerkselen der natuur, Bestaande in de Konst over de Groeying der Bloemen, Planten &c. (...). Leyden, J. du Vivier, 1719, 2 parts w. continuous pagination, (24),375,(8)p., engr. title-vignette, 12 plates.
- Lacks one textleaf; title-p. dustsoiled/ yellowed; contents partly sl. yellowed.
- Foxed (partly slightly, but almost throughout); occas. yellowed.
= Nissen, BBI 171; Pritzel 830; Bibl. Med. Neerl. I, p.503; Bibl. Walleriana 1109; Krivatsy 1309. Nice plates, partly in the style of the plates w. floating plants in architectural/ landscape settings used in Munting's botanical works. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LI.
- Occas. sl. waterst./ foxed in blank margin; several plates (sl.) spotted. Joints splitting.
= Nissen, BBI 201; Pritzel 981; Poggendorff I, p.233. DSB II, p.286f: "(...) Bonnet is considered one of the fathers of modern biology. He is distinguished for both his experimental research and his philosophy, which exerted a profound influence upon the naturalists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (...). In the Recherches, Bonnet grouped five memoirs, all of prime importance for plant biology (...). For his masterly experimentation, Bonnet should be considered one of the first naturalists to investigate experimentally the question of photosynthesis (...)".
- Owner's entry on first free endpaper; textpages as usual trifle foxed. Covers sl. worn along extremities.
= Nissen, BBI 310; Pritzel 1427.
- Both vols. w. sl. offsetting from plates on opposite textp.; vol. 1 prelim. lvs. sl. wormholed in lower blank margin. Backstrips and corners sl. worn; joints splitting.
= Soulsby 730. Erasmus Darwin's poem about nature, describing the sexual system of over 80 plants, based on Linnaeus' system.
- 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.
- Sl. browned; plates sl. foxed. Boards worn.
= Rare German transl. of A Treatise on the Culture and Management of Fruit Trees (London, 1802) by the Scottish botanist William Forsyth, with plates depicting trees, fruits and garden tools. Pritzel 2985.
AND 2 others in 3 vols., i.a. A.I.G.C. BATSCH, Botanische Unterhaltungen für Naturfreunde zu eigner Belehrung über die Verhältnisse der Pflanzenbildung entworfen (Jena, 1793, 2 vols., contemp. unif. boads).
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; yellowed throughout and a sm. wormhole in preliminary leaves; bookseller's ticket on lower pastedown. Spine-ends chipped; joints worn/ dam.; corners sl. worn; gilt on spine faded.
= Rare edition. Remarkable copy, with extensive AUTOGRAPH DEDICATION to Johann Gottfried Becker (Danisch court pharmacist for Frederick III) on first free endpaper. Pritzel 3015 (note).