2075 - 2373 NATURAL HISTORY, MEDICINE, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY etc.
= The Classics of Neurology & Neurosurgery Library. Facsimile reprint of the Philadelphia/ London ed. 1889.
AND 5 other similar facsimile reprints of similar works, i.a. P. DEGRAVERS, A Complete Physico-Medical and Chirurgical Treatise on the Human Eye (New York, 1992).
- A few sentences underlined on p.1-10; lacks first free endpaper. Bookblock shaken; spine-ends sl. worn.
- Bindings sl. worn; vol. 2 lacks vol. piece.
- Good/ fine set.
- Waterst. in upper margin at the end (incl. the plates). Binding chafed and sl. worn; top of spine dam.; corners showing.
= Osler 3764.
- Partly water-/ duststained in (blank) margins (occas. sl. affecting image/ text); large (double-p) calligraphed bookplate. ("Th.B. Lekkerkerker") pasted over 2 textpages; Corners sl. rubbed.
= BMN I, p.338; Bibliotheca Walleriana 9014; Hagelin p.118-119 on the orig. Engl. ed. "Smellie contributed more to the fundamentals of obstetrics than virtually any individual." (Garrison/ Morton 6154).
- Occas. sl. foxed/ stained; a few lvs. w. sm. wormholes. Otherwise a fine, large paper copy.
= BMN I, p.59; Waller 9068; Fasbender p.198 ("C. Solingen wird als ein gewalttätiger Mann geschildert und hierfür könnte sehr wohl die Art seiner Operativen Geburtshülfe sprechen"). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LIX.
- Pastedowns detached; plates sl. fingersoiled (1x loose and w. tear); margins partly (vaguely) waterst./ occas. sl. mouldy. Vellum soiled.
= Rare, only 3 copies in STCN. BMN I, p.82; Krivatsky 12335; Bibl. Walleriana 9928 (ed. 1659); Hirsch VI, p.97f.
- All fine.
- Upper hinge weak. Letterpiece dam.; corners showing.
= Bierens de Haan 2162; Nissen, ZBI 202. Cf. Poggendorff I, p.91; DSB I, p.410f: "(...) he is especially noted for his popularization of the use of the microscope and for his contribution to the study of crystals. (...) The first edition of The Microscope Made Easy appeared in 1742; it ran to five editions in Baker's lifetime and was translated into several foreign languages. (...) Henry Baker was in many respects a typical natural philosopher of the eighteenth century. His interest ranged widely, and his skills were equally various; he was by no means dedicated to one branch of study, nor did he do research in modern sense. Yet he deserved the title "a philosopher in little things"; and he had the rare gift of communicating his knowledge of, and above all his enthusiasm for, the microscope to others. (...) He regarded the microscope with reverence, as a means to the deeper appreciation of the wonders of God's world."
- A few lvs. sl. dogeared/ waterstained in margin; plates fine. Binding (sl.) worn/ chafed.
= Poggendorff I, p.91; Bierens de Haan 2162; Nissen, ZBI 202; DSB I, p.410ff.
- Binding trifle rubbed. = Nissen, ZBI 202.
AND 1 other: M. WILLKOMM, De wonderen van het mikroskoop (...) (Leyden, 1860, ills., contemp. hcalf w. mor. letterpiece).
- Trifle yellowed/ foxed towards the end.
= Poggendorff I, p.91; Bierens de Haan 2163; DSB I, p.410ff: "(...) he is especially noted for his popularization of the use of the microscope and for his contribution to the study of chrystals. (...) The first edition of The microscope made easy appeared in 1742; it ran to five editions in Baker's lifetime and was translated into several foreign languages. (...) Henry Baker was in many respects a typical natural philosopher of the eighteenth century. His interest ranged widely, and his skills were equally various: he was by no means dedicated to one branch of study, nor did he do research in modern sense. Yet he deserved the title "a philosopher in little things"; and he had the rare gift of communicating his knowledge of, and above all his enthusiasm for, the microscope to others. (...) He regarded the microscope with reverence, as a means to the deeper appreciation of the wonders of God's world."
- Upper joint splitting; spine-ends worn; corners showing.
= Nissen, ZBI 2114; Hagen I, p.402; Horn & Schenkling II, 11273; Wellcome III, p. 356; cf. Bibliotheca Walleriana 10856 (listing the first edition publ. in 1718 as Descriptions et usages de plusieurs nouveaux microscopes, tant simples que composez). The second enlarged edition of a scientific work concerning microscopy by the French naturalist Louis Joblot (1645-1723). "The publication of Descriptions established Joblot as the first French microscopist. The first part of the book described several microscopes and their construction and introduced some improvements, including the use of stops (diaphragms) in compound microscopes to correct for chromatic aberration. Joblot designed the first porte loupe, a simple preparation microscope in which the lens is supported by a string of 'Musschenbroek nuts,' forming a ball-and-socket jointed arm." (DSB VII, p.110). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LIX.
- Hinges weak; contemp. manuscript table of contents on 2nd blank; owner's stamp on title. Binding partly worn.
= Nissen, ZBI 3861; Landwehr, Dutch Books w. Col. Plates 187. Finely illustrated microscopical work on small water-animals. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LX.
- Partly waterst.; hinges broken but holding on cords; 2 plates lack sm. portion lower blank margin; title-p. creased and reattached. Binding worn.
= Bierens de Haan 2751. One of the most important books on mills.
- Text lvs. foxed. Lacks backstrip; covers loose and rubbed/ worn along edges. = Roller-G. II, 59.
- Ex library copies w. the usual defects (stamps, tickets etc.). One vol. lacks backcover.