2081 - 2468 NATURAL HISTORY, MEDICINE, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, TRANSPORT etc.
- Lacks plate IX (supplied in photost.); partly waterst.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown. Upper joint starting. Otherwise a good copy.
= BMN I, p.57; Hirsch I, p.441; cf. Krivatsy 1187 and Wellcome II, p.159 ((i.a.) 1st ed. 1651 and both not listing this 2nd ed.). The second edition of this popular medicinal manual by the erudite Van Beverwijck, friend of the poet J. Cats, whose poems are found throughout the book. Among his remarkable observations we find the description of silicosis (gin-drinker's liver), artificial teeth and epileptic children due to alcoholism. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCVIII.
- Title-p. sl. stained; library stamp on first text leaf; occas. sl. foxed (incl. the plate). Vellum sl. worn/ dam. along extremities.
= Cf. Wellcome II, p.295 (not listing this edition).
- Occas. sl. browned/ soiled; 4th part owner's stamp on first free endpaper and first text leaf. Covers (sl.) rubbed/ worn; 4 vols. spine-ends sl. dam.; corners showing.
- Partly browned and wormholed (incl. the plates). = BMN I, p.337.
= Instalment from the first edition of the Encyclopédie.
WITH 8 suppl. surgical plates and 3 suppl. plates concerning hermaphrodites (1x dam.).
- Foxed/ sl. browned; first part waterstained in upper inner margin. Large dam. spot on frontcover; all gilding worn off spine.
= Nice copy of the first Austrian pharmacopoeia. Kremers-Urdang p.553; Wellcome IV, p.371.
- Occas. sl. waterstained (incl. title-p.); library stamp and crossed-out owner's entry on title-p.; trimmed short w. sl. loss of page numbers and occas. running title. Covers worn; corners and spine-ends dam.
= Krivatsy 3299; Bibl. Walleriana 2501.
- (Sl.) yellowed throughout. Backstrip dam. at foot; corners showing. = Wellcome 2376/ 2378.
- Sm. annot. on first free endpaper and title-p.; sl. browned/ (water)stained; final few lvs. and lower pastedown sl. mouldy/ dam., without loss of text. Vellum severely soiled; lacks ties.
= Very rare.
- Partly (vaguely) waterst.; final lvs. sl. mouldy. Binding carefully restored at spine and edges.
= Wellcome III, p.142; BMN I, p.59.
- Contemp. annot. on upper pastedown; sl. frayed and occas. sl. (finger)soiled; lacks endpaper over lower pastedown; partly vaguely waterstained in upper blank margin/ lower outer blank corner, final work sl. worse. Remnants of paper letterpiece on frontcover; binding sl. worn along extremities.
= Cf. Wellcome Library III, p.177 (French ed.). Rare.
- Sl. foxed. Frontwrapper loose(ning).
= Trade edition of the rare and highly important thesis by the inventor of the artificial kidney.
AND 1 other by the same: Kunstmatige organen vandaag en morgen (Haarlem, 1976, ills., orig. wr. Haarlemse voordrachten XXXVI).
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; sm. stamp and owner's entry on title-p.; occas. sl. foxed. Spine worn; boards sl. worn along extremities. Nevertheless a good copy.
= Rare. Bibliotheca Medica Neerlandica I, p.338.
- Title-p. cut short (w. loss of publ. and date); sl. yellow/ browned and fingersoiled. Binding worn; lacks backstrip.
- Vague stamp on frontisp. and title-p. Sm. crack in spine; vellum trifle worn.
= BMN I, p.342; Garrison/ Morton 6147 (French ed.): "The outstanding textbook of the time. Mauriceau, leading obstetrician of his day, introduced the practice of delivering his patients in bed instead of in the obstetrical chair (...). This book established obstetrics as a science."; Hagelin, The womans booke p.65-67; Norman Library 1461 (French ed.); Bibliotheca Walleriana 6362; Krivatsky 7595. The first Dutch edition.
- Lacks 2 text lvs. (C2 and C3) w. 1 ill.; partly (water)stained and fingersoiled. Joints split(ting); frontcover loose(ning).
= BMN I, p.342; Garrison/ Morton 6147 (French ed.): "The outstanding textbook of the time. Mauriceau, leading obstetrician of his day, introduced the practice of delivering his patients in bed instead of in the obstetrical chair (...). This book established obstetrics as a science."; Hagelin, The womans booke p.65-67; Norman Library 1461 (French ed.); Bibliotheca Walleriana 6362; Krivatsky 7595. The first Dutch edition.
- Occas. owner's entry in title-p. Bindings/ spines occas. dam./ worn. = Fasbender p.376.
- Backstrip worn/ sl. dam.