2081 - 2468 NATURAL HISTORY, MEDICINE, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, TRANSPORT etc.
- Without the textvols. Occas. (sl.) foxed. Covers sl. rubbed; foot of spine sl. dam.
- Approx. 15 plates and 20 text leaves waterstained in (mostly blank) margins; one plate w. tear (paperflaw?) in image.
= Cf. Fowler 293; cf. Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection VI, 123 (1615, 1st ed.).
- Text vol.: paper over boards loose(ning)/ partly lacking. Atlas vol.: covers scratched/ sl. worn.
= With the rarely found text volume. Bierens de Haan 4839A; Kat. Orn. Berlin 2253. Detailed plates of staircases, including highly decorated banisters and skylights.
- Lacks htitle to the 1st part. Binding w. some chafed and worn spots. Otherwise fine.
WITH: the rare text vol. belonging to the ed. 1774 (2 parts in 1 vol., contemp. hroan, sm. 4to).
= The finest Dutch book on the construction of bridges and sluices. The final 6 plates concern "De nieuwe duyker sluys tot Lutje Schardam, of anders genaamt den Horn". Bierens de Haan 4836. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXII.
- Lacks 16 plates; one plate prob. lacks other half; a few plates waterst. and w. (closed) tears. Binding rubbed, sl. dented and worn. Sold w.a.f.
= The first edition depicting most of the buildings, all in Amsterdam, by Vingboons. "(...) work that could not be called Classicist in the strict sense but that was very influential because of its sensitive balance of Mannerist tradition and classicism." (Kuyper, Dutch classicist architecture p.221).
- Bookplate on upper pastedown. Lower joint splitting. Otherwise fine.
= PMM 412: "Once Aston had shown that the true atomic weight of an element is arrived at by averaging the mass of its constituent parts, and that there are seven isotopes of mercury and nine of xenon, the possibility that the atomic weights of elements would generally be whole numbers was finally abandoned"; DSB I, 230: "Aston's work, therefore provided important insights into the structure of the atom and the evolution of elements. (...) Aston's achievements were kept continually before the scientific public by revised editions of his excellent book Isotopes (...)".
- Apart from the almost always lacking lead of the plumb line, a fine and complete copy, with the following minor defects: old crossed out owner's entries(?) on title-p.; a few leaves sl. foxed; 10 leaves w. tiny burn hole in outer blank margin (not exceeding Ø 6 mm); final quire loosening and lower hinge splitting. Lacks ties.
= Van Ortroy (Apian) 57; Van Ortroy (Gemma Frisius) no.31; Alden, European Americana 581/2; Sabin 1752 (note); Bibl. Belgica A 41; cf. Church 84. Shirley no.82 and no.96 refer to a deceptive counterfeit of the worldmap (the "Charta Cosmographia") made after the second woodblock of the Apian worldmap (which was used in the editions published in 1553). One of the most important and popular 16th cent. works on cosmography, this treatise deals i.a. with triangulation, the climactic zones in which the earth may be divided, and with methods of determining latitude and longitude. The worldmap is one of the earliest maps to indicate America by that name. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXIII.
- Partly waterstained; yellowed/ browned.
= From the library of Bob Luza w. his bookplate on upper pastedown. Bierens de Haan 249 (ed. 1690?) en 250; Hoogendoorn BekBo2.2.
- Lacks 6 plates; partly sl. (vaguely) waterstained in outer blank margin, not touching text or image ("Indice" sl. worse); occas. some foxing; upper hinge sl. weak. Binding rubbed. Nevertheless a good copy. Almost all copies traced incomplete.
= Houzeau & Lancaster 8006. "The most celebrated Italian globe maker is Vincenzo Coronelli, a Franciscan monk from Venice. His reputation in the field was established in 1681 with the production of the so-called 'Marly globes', a pair with a diameter of almost 4 metres, made for the French king, Louis XIV. (...) In order to finance his globe making, Coronelli founded the Accademia Cosmografica degli Argonauti in 1684" (Dekker, Globes at Greenwich, pp. 112 and 312). Coronelli's Epitome Cosmografica contains very fine plates depicting i.a. wind roses of the ancient Greek winds (Anemoi), their Roman counterpart and later English version, the universal system according to i.a. Ptolemy and Copernicus, different types of globes (i.a."Globo celeste e sfera armillare di Cristoforo Tefleo" 1683) and hemispheres. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXIII.
= First edition in bookform. In 1935 Hubble described his principal observations and conclusions in the Silliman lectures at Yale University. These lectures were published the following year as The Realm of the Nebulae.
Idem. The Observational Approach to Cosmology. Oxf., Clarendon Press, 1937, VI,(4),68p., photogr. frontisp., 7 plates, ills., orig. giltlettered cl.
= The Rhodes lectures.
- All vols. w. the same owner's stamp on htitle and sm. paper ticket on title. Binding very worn.
= Houzeau/ Lancaster 9258; Poggendorff 1349. A fourth vol. was published in 1781.
- Without the portrait. Occas. trifle/ sl. foxed, mainly in outer blank margins. Otherwise a fine copy. The extremely rare first Dutch edition.
= Hoogendoorn, LansPo7, 1; 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 or American Book Prices Current. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXIV.
- Library ticket and stamp on upper pastedown. Covers sl. chafed. A fine copy.
= Houzeau/ Lancaster 8940.
- Leaf A8 misbound; two of the three small moving parts of 3 woodcuts lacking as very often; final ±40 lvs. (vague) waterstain in lower (blank) margin; a few repaired blank corners.
= Zinner 2204; not in Adams. "Sacrobosco's fame rests firmly on his De Sphaera, a small work based on Ptolemy and his Arabic commentators, published about 1220 and antedating the De sphaera of Grosseteste. It was quite generally adopted as the fundamental astronomy text, for often it was so clear that it needed little or no explanation (...) There are only four chapters to the work (...) After Manilius' Astronomica, The Sphere was the first printed book on astronomy (Ferrara, 1472) (...) For eighty years after Barocius in 1570 had pointed out some eighty-four errors, The Sphere was still studied, and in the seventheeth century it served as a manual of astronomy in some German and Low Countries schools. Often it appeared with commentaries by the most distinguished scholars of the time". (DSB XII, p.61).
- Lacks the title-p., frontisp. and 65 maps/ plates; the maps/ plates occas. partly (vaguely) waterstained; otherwise contents fine. Binding fine.
= Honeyman Collection VII, 2975; Houzeau/ Lancaster I, 9748; Poggendorff II, p.1096.
- A few marginal annots.; occas. sl. (water)stained. Backstrip partly lacking; covers sl. rubbed.
= Houzeau/ Lancaster 9732 (dating 1695); Hoogendoorn Valk01, 1.1 (p.883); cf. Bierens de Haan, 4942 (other ed. by Leonard Valk). Rare comple edition.
- Lacks final 2 text lvs.; lower hinge broken; frontisp. creased/ sl. dam. and reattached; occas. sl. foxed.
= Houzeau/ Lancaster 11434; cf. Zinner 5023.
- Leaf w. amendments mounted on verso frontwr. and first leaf; first 4 lvs. sm. coffee stain in outer lower corner. Wrapper w. a few foxed spots.
AND 3 contemp. notebooks published by the "Royal Canadian Air Force", each containing professional notes and technical drawings by pilots (in pencil and black pen).
- First and final 15 pages sl. browned/ sl. stained in outer margins; bookseller's clipping on lower pastedown. New endpapers; rebacked w. modern leather; covers sl. rubbed.
= Apart from the first title, the vol. contains New Atlantis. A Worke unfinished (n.pl., n.d.) and History Naturall and Experimentall (...) (London, 1650). Wing B327; Gibson 174. "His unfinished account of the ideal scientific society was published posthumously in New Atlantis [Novus Atlas], which ranks among the best-known and most delightful Utopian writings in the world and has been perhaps the most influential. (...) Bacon's immense prestige and influence in later seventeenth-century science does not rest upon positive achievements in either experiment or theory but rather, upon his vision of science expressed in Novum organum and New Atlantis and in particular upon his fundamental optimism about the possibilities for its rapid development." (DSB).
- Bookplate of Sir Robert Eden Bar on upper pastedown; hinges weak. Binding worn; joints starting/ splitting.
= Apart from the first title, the vol. consists of The Life of the Right Honourable Francis Bacon (London, 1670), History Natural and Experimental of Life & Death (...) (ibid., 1669), Articles of Enquiry (ibid., 1669) and New Atlantis. A Worke unfinished (n.pl., n.d.). Gibson 179b; Wing B331A. "His unfinished account of the ideal scientific society was published posthumously in New Atlantis [Novus Atlas], which ranks among the best-known and most delightful Utopian writings in the world and has been perhaps the most influential. (...) Bacon's immense prestige and influence in later seventeenth-century science does not rest upon positive achievements in either experiment or theory but rather, upon his vision of science expressed in Novum organum and New Atlantis and in particular upon his fundamental optimism about the possibilities for its rapid development." (DSB).