2081 - 2468 NATURAL HISTORY, MEDICINE, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, TRANSPORT etc.
- Backstrip dam. spot; covers sl. soiled. Good/fine interior condition.
= Wood 364; Engelmann 440; Dean I, 495. The first edition, opposite Latin/French text.
- Very fine copy. Paper ticket at foot of spine; a few chafed spots on paper over backcover.
= Nissen ZBI, 2138.
- Occas. sl. waterstained, affecting images; sl. frayed and dustsoiled along edges.
= Plates from: 1. (...) der Vissen en Bloedlooze Water-Dieren; 2. (...) der Bloedlose Water-Dieren in 4 boeken; 3. (...) der Vogelen; 4. (...) der Gekerfde of Kronkel-Dieren, Slangen en Draken and 5. (...) der Slangen in twee boeken. Including the text.
- A few plates loose; both vols. w. the same (later) owner's entries in pen and ink on first free endpaper. Binding worn/ dam. along edges; both vols. w. almost entirely worn off central gilt coat of arms on both covers (unidentified). Despite mainly external defects a complete and clean copy.
= A good complete copy of the second edition of this standard seventeenth-century encyclopaedia of natural history, illustrated with fine plates which were often reprinted by others into the next century showing a mix of recognisable animals together with mythical beasts. Cf. Nissen ZBI 2131-2135; Nissen IVB 481. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCVII.
- Foxed; libr. stamp on htitle. Orig. frontwr. doubled; binding dampstained.
= From the library of Eugene Dubois (1858-1940), w. his owner's entry on the frontwr. and htitle.
AND 11 small publications (mainly offprints) by E. DUBOIS, i.a. Over den kringloop der stof op aarde (1899), The geographical and geological signification of the Hondsrug, and the examination of the erratics in the Northern Diluvium of Holland (1905), Das Geologische Alter der Kendeng- oder Trinil-Fauna (1908), Hollands duin als natuurlijke zeewering en de tijd (1916), The Proto-Australian Fossil Man of Wadjak, Java (1920).
- Library stamp on title-p. Joints splitting; backstrip lacks sm. portions.
- Sl. foxed and yellowed. Binding sl. scratched and worn; lacks part of letterpiece.
= DSB VII, p.275-276. Second English edition of Keill's major work: Introductio ad veram physicam (...) (Oxf., 1701), in which Keill acted as propagator of Newtonian philosophy and in which K. (in the appendix) gives "a proof for the law of "centrifugal" force, whose magnitude had been announced in 1673 by Christiaan Huygens".
- Slightly dustsoiled. Boards sl. worn along extremities. = Cf. Bierens de Haan 2537.
- Large bookplate on upper pastedown. SIGNED by both authors.
= The first post-war scientific publication on the V1 and V2 rockets. Rare.
- Sl. foxed/ browned (incl. plates and wr.). Inside of portfolio sl. dam.
- Lacks 6 parts and 9 plates; contents partly loose(ning) and other (sm.) defects. Bindings (severely) worn/ dam. and partly repaired.
= The unfinished (the history of the flora was never written) natural history of the district Holland, dealing with the cultural and social life of its inhabitants and giving geographical descriptions.
- Browned; both vols. w. the same libr. stamp on prelim. lvs. incl. title and w. (partly crossed-out) annotations in pen and ink on first free endpaper; one large fold. plate partly torn on fold. Spine-ends dam.; both gilt spines for the larger part worn off; corners showing; worn along extremities.
= First vol. Opera contains letters 28-31, 34-36, 38 and 42-60. Second vol. Arcana contains letters 32, 33, 37, 39-41 and 61-92. Dobell 29 vol. 1 and 25c; Waller 10889 and 10879; Wellcome III, 477; cf. Nissen ZBI 2416 and cf. 2417; PMM 166; DSB VIII, p.126ff. "Leeuwenhoek was a brilliant example of the amateur scientist. (...) Leeuwenhoek made remarkable discoveries in the anatomy of man and the higher and lower forms of animal and plant life (...)." (PMM). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCVIII.
- All vols. sm. owner's entry on title; 2 vols. upper pastedown loose. All vols. but one lack letterpiece; some vols. sl. dam. along joints and/or corners sl. worn; 1 vol. top of spine sl. dam.
= Sabin 41054. Rare.
- Lacks plate VI; a few lvs. loose; occas. sl. waterstained. Binding severely dam.
= Cf. (on the French editions): Ferchl p.307; Vandewiele p.112; Ferguson II, p.21 and Bibl. Walleriana 5698. Wellcome p.488; DSB VIII, p.172-175.
- Joints and spine-ends worn/ chipped. Good copy. = Nissen, ZBI p.290.
- Backstrip partly worn off; fore-edge sl. stained. = DSB IV, p.499.
- Owner's entry on title-p. Spine-ends sl. rubbed. Otherwise fine.
= Unchanged reprint of the first edition published by E.J. Brill, Leyden, 1895.
- Upper hinge weak; upper pastedown and first free endpaper browned; sl. foxed. Waterstain on frontcover; title written in black marker on spine.
AND 3 others on Marey, i.a. F. DAGOGNET, Etienne-Jules Marey, A Passion for the Trace (New York, 1992, ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., obl. sm. 4to).
- Paper over boards partly worn off; top of spine chipped; backstrip worn. Contents fine.
= Nissen, ZBI 2700. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCVI.