1607 - 1747 NATURAL HISTORY, MEDICINE, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY etc.
76 1647 Broglie L de 
76 1647 Broglie L de 
- Bookseller's ticket on verso frontwr.
= With AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION on title. Extremely rare, de Broglie usually refused to sign his work. DSB II, p.487. Actualités scientifiques et industrielles XLII.
Idem. L'Électron magnétique (théorie de Dirac). Ibid., idem, 1934, 1st ed., VIII,(2),315p., ills., orig. wr.
= First edition in which Louis de Broglie exposes his theory of so-called "neutrinal" light, based on the idea that the photon results from the fusion of two neutral particles, the hypothetical Dirac neutrinos.
Idem. La mécanique ondulatoire du photon. Une nouvelle théorie de la lumière. Ibid., idem, 1940/ 1942, 1st ed., 2 vols., 281; 148p., orig. unif. wr.
76 1648 Buys E 
- Lacks 4 vols.; partly waterst.; one plate torn/ dam. Bindings w. minor imperfections.
= Van der Aa I, p.512-513; Collison p.236; not in Bierens de Haan. Rare, typical Enlightenment dictionary.
76/1649 Calculators Trinks Brunsviga 
76/1649 Calculators Trinks Brunsviga 
- Casque sl. rusty.
76 1650 Chemistry Nernst W 
- Lacks backstrip.
= From the library of professor Pieter Zeeman (shared Nobel prize laureate with Hendrik Lorentz in 1902), with his owner's stamp on title-p. and dedic. leaf.
76 1651 Civil engineering Bélidor B F de 
76 1651 Civil engineering Bélidor B F de 
76 1651 Civil engineering Bélidor B F de 
76 1651 Civil engineering Bélidor B F de 
76 1651 Civil engineering Bélidor B F de 
- Corners showing; backstrips w. some loss of gilding due to dry leather; joints starting/ splitting; binding worn. Despite external defects, a fine copy.
= Poggendorff I, p.138; Kat. Orn. Berlin 3555; DSB I, p.582; Roberts & Trent p.29-30: "Bélidor's work is one of the earliest scientific books in the field of engineering. Concentrating on civil construction, he considers transportation, shipbuilding, waterways and watersupply, ornamental fountains, windmills and pumps, epitomizing their state on the eve of the Industrial Revolution." Bélidor was the first to use differential and integral equations for the solution of hydrotechnical problems. The work remained the standard authority on practical water engineering long after most of the techniques it describes became obsolete.
76 1652 Civil engineering Bélidor B F de 
76 1652 Civil engineering Bélidor B F de 
76 1652 Civil engineering Bélidor B F de 
76 1652 Civil engineering Bélidor B F de 
- Corners showing.
= Bibl. Mechanica p.31-32 (ed. 1830); Graesse I, p.324; Kat. Orn. Berl., no.3540 (1st ed. 1729); Jähns p.1745: "Es steckt eine unendliche Fülle praktischen Wissens in diesem Werke, das mit einer die geringsten Einzelheiten würdigenden Genauigkeit einen ungewöhnlichen Weitblick verbindet und auch dem Laien verständlich wird durch die schlichte Klarheit der Auseinandersetzungen und durch die 50 trefflichen Kupfertafeln."; DSB I, p. 581-582: "Bélidor's career belongs to the early stages of engineering mechanics."
76 1653 Civil engineering Sluices 
76 1653 Civil engineering Sluices 
= From the K.F. von Wiebeking, Theoretisch-praktische Wasserbaukunst. I.a. showing the sluices at Den Hoorn, Halfweg and Nieuwendiep.
76 1654 Conchology Rumphius G E 
76 1654 Conchology Rumphius G E 
76 1654 Conchology Rumphius G E 
76 1654 Conchology Rumphius G E 
- Partly sl. yellowed (incl. some plates); a few textpages sl. browned; hinges weak; some textleaves sl. frayed along outer edge; 19th cent. annots. and owner's entries in pen and ink on htitle. Binding worn along extremities.
= With the rare portrait. Nissen, ZBI 3518; Ruinen 26; Landwehr, VOC 591. The first edition of this fine work on shellfish, minerals, shells, stones, curiosities found on Ambon (Molluccas), where Georg Everhard Rumphius lived from 1653 until his death in 1702, in the service of the VOC. Cobres I, 104-105: "Berühmtes Handbuch der Konchyliologen (...) verdient die Aufmerksamkeit der Kenner." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIII.
76 1655 Conchology Rumphius G E 
76 1655 Conchology Rumphius G E 
76 1655 Conchology Rumphius G E 
76 1655 Conchology Rumphius G E 
- Foxed almost throughout.
= The second edition (first published 1705), with the same plates as the first. Landwehr, VOC 591; Nissen, ZBI 3518; Ruinen 26. Fine work on shellfish, minerals, shells, stones, curiosities found on Ambon where George Everhard Rumphius lived from 1653 until his death in 1702, in the service of the VOC. Cobres I, 104-105: "Berühmtes Handbuch der Konchyliologen (...) verdient die Aufmerksamkeit der Kenner". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIII.
BOUND WITH: Besler, B. Fasciculus Rariorum et Aspectu dignorum Varii Generis. Nürnberg, n.publ., n.d. (±1616), (2) textp., engr. title-p., 20 (of 32) half-p. plates (attached to each other to form a complete leaf) and sl. extended w. blank paper slips in lower margin in order to fit the size of the leaves of the preceding Rumphius work, folio.
- Lacks 12 plates and dedic. leaf; engr. title and textpages cut short (w. loss of letters) and strengthened w. restoration tape in outer margin; paper strip used for extending of the leaves partly loosening; sl. foxed throughout.
= Contains the following plates: the attractive engr. title showing Besler amongst his collection; Marina (6 plates); Conchilia (2 plates); Lapides (6 plates) and Fructus (6 plates). Part of a series of illustrations showing Besler's famous collection exotic plants, animals, stones etc. Nissen, ZBI 345; Pritzel 746.
76 1656 Crabb G 
- Vol. 1 upper joint splitting. A fine set.
= Contains a variety of plates, alphabetically arranged by subject, i.a. Astronomy, Botany, Entomology, Heraldry, Ichthyology, Militia, Music, Ornithology, Printing and Zoology.
76 1657 D = J D'Alencé 
76 1657 D = J D'Alencé 
- Owner's stamp on upper pastedown and lower (blank) margin of frontispiece; first ±40 lvs. (sl.) waterstained (incl. plates); upper margin trimmed, occas. affecting text/ plates.
= Hoogendoorn, DAL02.2; Bierens de Haan 1066.
76 1658 Darwin C 
- Both vols. trifle browned; occas. trifle/ sl. foxed; new endpapers. Both vols. rebacked w. use of old backstrip; corners bumped.
= First Dutch edition. Freeman 1053.
AND 5 others in 6 vols. by/ on the same: i.a. Het uitdrukken der gemoedsaandoeningen bij den mensch en de dieren (Arnhem/ Nijm., n.d., 2nd ed., plates w. ills., orig. pict. cl.) and De reis van de "Beagle" (ibid., n.d., plates, contemp. giltlettered mor.).
76 1659 Darwin C 
- Occas. trifle foxed. = Freeman 912. Published in the same year as the first English edition.
76 1660 Desaguliers J T 
76 1660 Desaguliers J T 
76 1660 Desaguliers J T 
76 1660 Desaguliers J T 
- Volume 1 and 2 reissues from eds. 1736 and 1746. All vols. w. owner's entry in pen and ink on first blank. Binding worn, joints occas. starting/ splitting.
= John Théophilus Desaguliers (1683-1744), from Huguenot parents who settled in England. Bierens de Haan 1178-1180. "Desaguliers continued to furnish the society with experiments until his death. (...) between 1716 and 1742 he contributed no fewer than fifty-two papers to the Philosophical Transactions, the earlier ones chiefly on optics and mechanics, the later ones on electricity." (DSB).
76 1661 Drapiez A 
76 1661 Drapiez A 
- Partly yellowed (incl. some of the plates). Spines sl. worn; vol. 4 lacks large portion of backstrip; vol. 10 foot of spine chipped.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIII.
76/1662 Ehrenfest P Collection of ±240 offprints in 8 volumes from the collection of P EHRENFEST 
- Some lvs. occas. sl. soiled/ creased; a few sl. frayed, overall in good condition; w. occas. annots./ remarks in pencil by former owner L. Reerink. Backstrips of 5 vols. loosening/ sl. dam.
= ''Paul Ehrenfest (1880-1933) (...) studied theoretical physics at Vienna, where he received his doctorate in 1904 for a dissertation on the extension of Hertz's mechanics to problems in hydrodynamics. (...) In 1912, when Ehrenfest was appointed to the chair of theoretical physics at Leiden as the successor to H.A. Lorentz, to whom he became deeply attached. (...). As a teacher Ehrenfest was unique. Albert Einstein described him as ''peerless'' and ''the best teacher in our profession whom I have ever known''. (...) Ehrenfes's special gift as a theoretical physicist was his critical ability, rather than his creative power or his calculational skill. (...) The critical approach also led Ehrenfest to his greatest positive contribution to physics: the adiabatic principle. Ehrenfest was one of the first to try to understand the significance of the strange new concept of energy quanta that Max Planck had introduced into physics in 1900 in his theory of blackbody radiation'' (DSB 3/4, p. 292-294). The lot contains i.a. the following titles:
H.A. LORENTZ, Theorie der magneto-optischen Phänomene (n.d. (1909), (1),200-281p.); Idem, Le partage de l'énergie entre la matière pondérable et l'éther (n.d. (1909), (1),146-165p.); Idem, De aberratie theorie van Stokes in de onderstelling van een aether, die niet overal dezelfde dichtheid heeft (1899, 7p.); Idem, On the theory of the Zeeman-effect in a direction inclined to the lines of force (n.d. (1909), 321-340p.); Idem, Over de zichtbaarheid van kleine deeltjes (1910, 7p.); Idem, The Theory of Radiation and the Second Law of Thermodynamics (1901, 436-450p.); Idem, Considerations of gravitation (1900, 559-574p.); Idem, The Motion of Electrons in metallic Bodies I-III (1905, 438-453; 585-593; 684-691p.).
A. SOMMERFELD, Die Willkürlichen Functionen in Der Mathematischen Physik, no.8 (n.d. (1906), 75,(5)p.); Idem, Die Drudesche Dispersionstheorie vom Standpunkte des Bohrschen Modelles und die Konstitution (1917, 498-550p.); Idem, Über die Bewegung der Elektronen (n.d., 155-171p.); Idem, Über die Zusammenstezung der Geschwindigkeiten in der Relativtheorie (1909, 577-582p.); Idem, Über die Beugung der Röntgenstrahlen (1912, 473-506p.); Idem, Die allgemeine Dispersionsformel nach dem Bohrschen Modell (n.d. (1910), 549-584p.).
P. HERTZ, Untersuchungen über unstetige Bewegungen eines Elektrons (1904, (6),80,(2)p.); Idem, Die Bewegung eines Elektrons unter dem Einflusse einer Longitudinal wirkenden Kraft (1906, 229-268p.); Idem, Ueber die kanonische Gesamtheit (1911, 824-848p.).
M. BORN, Untersuchungen Über Die Stabilität Der Elastischen Linie in Ebene Und Raum: Unter Verschiedenen Grenzbedingungen (1906, 101p., 13 tables, 7 photogr. ills.); Idem and E. Oettinger, Variationsprinzipe der Wärmetheorie (1907, 9p.); Idem, Die träge Masse und das Relativitätsprinzip (1909, 571-584p.); Idem, Dem Andenken Hermann Minkowski's Gewidmet (1909, 56p.); Idem, Zur Kinematik des starren Körpers im System des Relativitätsprinzips (1910, 19p.); Idem und R. Ladenburg, Über das Verhältnis von Emissions- und Absorptionsvermögen bei stark absorbierenden Körpern (1911, 5p.); Idem und Th. v. Kárman, Über Schwingungen im Raumgittern (1912, 13p.).
M. VON LAUE, Die Einsteinschen Energieschwankungen (1915, 198-202p.); Idem, Ein Satz der Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung und seine Anwendung auf die Strahlungstheorie (1915, 853-878p.); Idem, Über die Symmetrie der Kristall-Röntgenogramme (1916, 433-446p.); Idem, Mathematische Betrachtungen über die Beugungserscheinungen an vielen unregelmäßig verstreuten Teilchen (1916, 91-102p.); Idem, Die Nordströmische Gravitationstheorie (Bericht) (1917, 264-313p., w. AUTOGRAPH DEDICATION); Idem, Bandenspektrum und molekulare Quantendrehungen. Sonderabdruck aus den Verhandlung der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft (1918, 130-138p.); Idem, Interferenzerscheinungen bei Röntgenstrahlen (1912, 304-322p.); Idem, Die interferenzerscheinungen an Rontgenstrahlen hervorgerufen durch das Raumgitter der Kristalle (1914, 43p.); Idem and J. Steph van der Lingen, Experimentelle Untersuchungen über den Debyeeffekt (1914, 2p.).
K. GLITSCHER, Über die Intensitätsverteilung im Viellinenspektrum des Wasserstoffs (1916, 125-130p.); Idem, Spektroskopischer Vergleich zwischen den Theorien des starren und des deformierbaren Elektrons (1917, 32p.).
F. PAUER, Magnetische Drehung der Polarisationsebene des Lichtes in einem Gase Bohrscher Moleküle (1918, 64p.).
W. PAULI Jr., Theoretische Bemerkungen über den Diamagnetismus einatomiger Gase (1920, 201-205p.).
Complete list of titles available on request.
76 1663 Einstein A 
- Frontwr. sl. stained. = Weil 114.
76 1664 Electricity Thomson J J 
= Important addition to J.C. Maxwell's landmark work on electricity and magnetism.
76 1665 Entomology Beaurieu G G de 
- First blanks and endpapers w. a few stamps and (traces of) tickets. Bindings rubbed.
= Nissen, ZBI 271. Complete set.
76 1666 Entomology Goedaerdt J 
76 1666 Entomology Goedaerdt J 
- Vol. 1 and 2 (of 3) only; vol.1 owner's entry on first free endpaper, lacks the portrait and w. occas. (vague) pencil marks in blank margin; vol.2 lacks one prelim. leaf and part of the plates yellowed.
= Beaart p.76ff; cf. Horn/ Schenkling 8017; Nissen, ZBI 1603; Landwehr, Dutch Books w. Col. Plates 65: "Some copies contain hand-coloured plates by the author-painter, who invited the buyer in his introduction to have his copy coloured." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIV.