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4 vols. bound in 2 and plate volume. (2), XL, 318 pp. (4), 296, (4) pp. (2), XX, 368 pp. (4), VIII, 333, (3) pp. Plate vol.: 24, 12 pp. With 17 (12 coloured) plates. Contemp. cloth with giltstamped red spine labels. 8vo and 4to. Second edition of Goethe's principal scientific work, the "Farbenlehre" (Sämmtliche Schriften, vols. XX-XXIII, with half titles), including the quarto-sized "Erklärung der zur Goethe’s Farbenlehre gehörigen Tafeln" and the "Anzeige und Übersicht", which is also usually found missing. "Goethe's first publication on optics culminated in his 'Zur Farbenlehre', his longest and, in his own view, best work, today known principally as a fierce and unsuccessful attack on Newton's demonstration that white light is composite" (DSB V, 445). In 1810-17, Geistinger published a pirated edition of Goethe's works; the "Farbenlehre" was issued both separately with its own title page and as part of the collected works. The scarcity of Geistinger's edition (the only one published during the author's lifetime to include the "Farbenlehre") is dicussed by K. Dorn in his article "Habent sua fata libelli", in: Aus dem Antiquariat 1988, p. 379f. Goethe counted this edition of his works among the good ones, but himself owned only an incomplete copy. - Much rarer than the edition published in 1810: not in ABPC auction records since 1975; OCLC lists only two copies (Johns Hopkins Univ., San Diego Univ.). - Slightly browned and brownstained; plate volume foxed; plates trimmed and mounted on backing paper. A very nice copy with old ownership stamp from a school in Tulln/Donau on flyleaf of plate volume. Hagen 348, 348 b-c. Kippenberg 387 & 388. Goedeke IV/3, 583, 46 a 1. Schmid 68-71 & 77-79.
8vo. VI, 160 pp. - (Bound with) II: Johnson, James. The Influence of Civic Life, Sedentary Habits, and Intellectual Refinement, on Human Health, and Human Happiness, Including an Estimate of the Balance of Enjoyment and Suffering in the Different Gradations of Society. London, (W. Thorne for) T. & G. Underwood et al., 1818. VIII, 93, (1) pp. Contemporary full green straight morocco (bound by Charles Hering, Jr., of London) with gilt spine title and the gilt arms of the Earls of Harrington on both covers. Leading edges gilt; gilt inner dentelle. Matching green endpapers. Green silk ribbon. All edges gilt. First edition of this rare and early vegetarian work. J. F. Newton (1767-1837) sought to popularise the vegetable and distilled water diet of the physician and veganism pioneer William Lambe, whose patient he was. In his book, Newton promoted his own "regimen of distilled water and vegetable diet" (p. 66), believing vegetables to be the natural food of man and animal flesh unhealthy and unnatural. It was Newton who converted Percy B. Shelley to a vegetarian lifestyle, and his book influenced the poet's 1813 pamphlet on vegetarianism and animal rights, "A Vindication of Natural Diet". - Bound with this is a rare hygienic work by the surgeon J. Johnson (1777-1845), physician to the Duke of Clarence (afterward King William IV). - Interior very slightly browned, but a fine specimen, beautifully bound by Charles Hering for the library of Charles Stanhope, Viscount Petersham and afterwards the 4th Earl of Harrington (1780-1851). Known as "Beau" Petersham, the eccentric but much-imitated gentleman was a close friend of the Prince Regent George, who emulated his mannerisms in clothing, tea mixes, and consumption of snuff. Lord Petersham designed many of his own clothes and his fashions were quickly copied; he made famous the "Harrington" hat and the "Petersham" overcoat. The final pages of the present volume contain contemporary handwritten annotations about the poisonous effects of a fruitarian diet of (quoted from Jacques de Sade's "Mémoires pour la vie de Pétrarque") and about the high regard in which Galen and Hippocrates held water and abstinence, very likely in Petersham's own hand.
13 pp. Disbound. First edition of Thomas Paine's final work: his essay on the cause of yellow fever, written during the summer of 1805 while Paine was at New Rochelle. "As he explained, 'the fever breaking out in the city prevented my sending it for publication'. Although he had intended to let his house in New Rochelle 'to some New Yorker for the summer', the outbreak of fever in New York led to his spending most of the latter half of 1805 and the first half of 1806 at home" (Speck, A Political Biography of Thomas Paine, p. 190f.). Paine held that the illness (now known to be transmitted by the yellow fever mosquito) was generated by "the impure air or [pernicious] vapour [issuing] from the [...] new made earth, raised on the muddy and filthy part of the river". - One of the Founding Fathers of the United States, Paine in 1776 authored the electrifying pamphlet "Common Sense", inspiring Americans to declare independence from Britain. The present treatise, first published in newspapers in 1806, bears witness to the strong scientific interests that Paine maintained beyond his many political activities. He died in 1809, his health having been failing for some time. - Very rare: WorldCat records only eight copies worldwide (seven in the U.S. and one in the National Library of Australia); no copy in British Library or COPAC. This copy removed from the Norwich & Norfolk United Medical Book Society (their stamp on title page), inscribed in a contemporary hand above the title: "Presented by the Hospital Medical Board". Sabin 58232. Not in Wellcome, Waller or Osler.
Folio. (12), 708, (28) pp. With the title-page in a border built up from cast fleurons and 5 engraved plates. Contemporary sheepskin parchment; recased, with later endpapers. Rare third edition of a work on pharmaceutical chemistry written by the Spanish apothecary Félix Palacios (1677-1737). When the Palestra pharmaceutica appeared in 1706, it was the first work on the subject written in the Spanish language. Even though the book became widely accepted and used in Spain, Palacios met strong resistance from his colleagues because he rejected the galenic, or plant based, medicines in favour of chemical medicines. With this he rejected the ideas of Galen, Mesue and Dioscorides, which were still the standard in most parts of Europe and the Middle East. The work starts with a preliminary text, followed by a chapter on the general principles of pharmacy and chemistry in the form of questions and answers. The other four chapters deal with the ingredients and making of the medicines. It discusses distillation and calcination methods with the engraved plates showing various tools and instruments: pots, furnaces, alambics etc. - First few leaves slightly damaged along the extremities, waterstains throughout and binding soiled, worn and recased; a fair copy. Blake, p. 336. Palau 209403. Wellcome IV, p. 286 (incomplete). WorldCat (6 copies).
Folio (224 x 335 mm). 5 parts in one volume. Each with a title-page in red and black, 2 [part III: 3] letterpress pp. and 18 numbered engraved plates. In total 90 engraved plates. Contemporary full calf with giltstamped red and green labels to prettily gilt spine. All edges red. First edition. - This "masterpiece" (cf. Cobres) by the German engraver and publisher is considered the "most extensive and widely useful collection, owing its existence solely to him [Ridinger]" (cf. Thienemann). It includes a sequence of zoologically themed plates which "are highly sought after and often copied" (cf. Thienemann), showing animals in their characteristic actions and surroundings. Part one presents sporting dogs, while part two treats wild animals, such as lions, tigers and aurochs. Parts three and four cover "principal animals of the chase" (Schwerdt), namely aurochs, bears, stags, boars, deer, ibexes, chamois, lynxes and wolves. "Lesser animals of the chase" (Schwerdt), like foxes, rabbits, badgers, otters, beavers and squirrels are included in the fifth part. Two additional parts, showing horses, mules and donkeys, would be issued until 1755. - Contemporary bookplate of Count Ladislaus Kemeny to the patterned pastedown. A few notes in ink, mostly stating animals' Latin names. Binding and pastedowns slightly wormed. Top spine end missing, lower one scuffed. A few pages brownstained, plate 86 waterstained, a small tear in plate 81 (not touching image). From the library of the Viennese collector Werner Habel, with his signed and stamped ownership, dated 1979, to the flyleaf. VD 18, 90195426. Thieme/Becker 28, 309. Thienemann 391-480. Nissen 3406. Schwerdt III, 141. Cobres 307, 4.
2 Bde. XVI, 512 SS. (8), 456, (38) SS. Mit 2 gefalt. Kupfertafeln. Zeitgenöss. Interimspappbände mit hs. Rückentitel. 8vo. Erste deutsche Ausgabe des erstmals 1782 in Stockholm erschienenen Werks, eines der maßgeblichen metallurgischen Kompendien des vorindustriellen Zeitalters. Der Bergbauexperte, Mineraloge und Chemiker Rinman (1720-92) gilt als "Vater der schwedischen Eisenindustrie" und war lange Jahre als Direktor mehrerer Bergwerke und Eisenhütten tätig; er hatte großen Einfluss auf die Entwicklung der schwedischen Stahlproduktion. Die Übersetzung stammt von dem vor allem durch seine Berichte über seine Reisen in Russland bekannten Apotheker und Chemiker Johann Gottlieb Georgi (1729-1802). - Die Tafeln zeigen die Verfertigung eines Stahlmagneten sowie das Gerben des Roh- und Messerstahls. Einbände berieben und bestoßen; innen etwas gebräunt bzw. stockfleckig. Aus der Bibliothek des Schlosses Pfannberg in der Steiermark mit Stempel des österreichischen Industriellen Franz Freiherr Mayr v. Melnhof (1810-89, Eigentümer des Eisenwerks in Donawitz und Errichter der Gussstahlfabrik in Kapfenberg) am Spiegel und Titelblatt. Poggendorff II, 646. Ronalds 431. Engelmann (Bibl. mech.-techn.) 306. ADB VIII, 713. NDB VI, 242f.
4to. (16), 170, (20) pp., final blank. With engraved vignette to title, printed in red an black. (With:) Ettmüller, Michael. De virtute opii diaphoretica dissertatio. Leipzig & Jena, Krebs for Bielcke, [1682]. 48 pp. Contemporary marbled half vellum. Second edition of this early monograph on the pharmacological and therapeutic aspects of opium. "The main text is a reissue of the 1674 edition" (Krivatsy). Wedel not only evaluates the medical literature but also all available travel reports. The chapter entitled "An aphrodisiacum sit opium & mulierem excitet?" provides an overview of the various opinions, including Saar's account from his East Indian journeys noting the use of opium in Batavian brothels, as well as Garcia's contradictory information that opium leads to infertility and impotence (p. 128f.). The title vignette depicts a Turkish opium picker: scratching the poppy seed capsule with his knife, he collects the sap. The appendix contains the first printing of a dissertation on the qualities of opium, written by Michael Ettmüller (d. 1683), who dedicated his work to his colleage Wedel. - G. W. Wedel (1645-1721) was one of the principal physicians of his age. He authored 49 books and was the teacher of several progressively minded medical men. He is credited with the timeless aphorism that "medicine is nothing but the incessant renewal of ignorance." His "Opiologia" won him admission to the Academy of Naturalists, the still-extant "Leopoldina" in Halle. "Wedel stood midway between medieval and modern world views, defending astrology and alchemy and championing iatrochemistry" (DSB XIV, 212). "Wedel appears to have been one of the first to employ the word physiology in its present restricted sense" (Thorndike VIII, s. v.). - Evenly browned throughout; binding slightly rubbed. A fine copy. VD 17, 12:166680Q. Krivatsy 12664. Pritzel 10054. Ferchl 570. Hirsch/H. V, 875.
8vo. (2), 34 pp. Original printed wrappers. Offprint from the "Klinisches Jahrbuch", bearing Ehrlich's autograph inscription to the mayor of Frankfurt, Franz Adickes ("in vorzüglichster Hochachtung gewidmet") on the upper wrapper cover. - "This was the beginning of the concept of biological standardization. The first exposition of Ehrlich's side-chain theory appeared in this paper" (Garrison/M.). Ehrlich's famous paper describes how diphtheria toxin and antitoxin interact and the method of their measurement. "Not only did he postulate that immunological specificity was due to a unique stereochemical relationship between the active sites on antigen and antibody, he introduced also the concepts of affinity and of functional domains on the antibody molecule. This work provided the taproot from which the field of immunochemistry later grew; he would be famous for this contribution alone. But Ehrlich also appended to this study a theory of the basis for antibody formation, an inclusion that assured the report a unique position in the history of immunology" (Silverstein, A History of Immunology, p. 65). Paul Ehrlich shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 1908 with Elie Metchnikoff "in recognition of their work on immunity". - Light fingerstains and dustsoiling; remains of a shalfmark label; stamp to verso of title-page. Garrison/Morton 5064.
4to. (16), 392 pp. (12), 188 pp. With one engraved frontispiece, 40 engraved folding plates, and several illustrations in the text. Later marbled wrappers. The first two volumes of the "Miscellanea Berolinensia", the scientific periodical of the Berlin Academy of Sciences (vol. 1, first issued in 1710, is present in the 1749 reprint). Bound in a single volume, they contain remarkable contributions by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, among which is his "Brevis descriptio machinae arithmeticae", the description of Leibniz's famous calculating machine: the first stepped-drum calculator, being the first machine that could perform multiplication and division - an invention of major importance in the history of computing. Further, this issue includes a notable treatise on the game Go, also by Leibniz, illustrated by a folding plate showing two Japanese men playing this game. - Among the other contributors are the mathematicians Jakob Hermann and Philipp Naudé the younger, as well as the astronomers Johann Wilhelm Wagner, Christoph Langhansen and Gottfried Teuber. - The plates show Leibniz's calculating machine as well as fossils, celestial bodies and eclipses, a threshing machine, medals, and calculations with geometrical sketches. - Somewhat browned throughout. Old bookseller's ticket of Sifton, Praed & Co., London, to verso of first title-page. A fine copy of two publications reflecting the active academic scene of Berlin.
8vo. (10), 143, (9) pp. With fine woodcut frontispiece showing saw and pruning knife, 1 engraved folding plate, and 30 woodcut text illustrations. Contemporary half calf and speckled boards, spine richly gilt with gilt lettered label. The first western book on the cultivation of dwarf trees, or "bonsai". Georg Liegelsteiner was court gardener to the Archbishop of Salzburg in Austria, Count Franz Anton Harrach. His book on dwarf trees, although now largely forgotten and overlooked in botanical and horticultural literature, proved extraordinarily successful in its day, achieving six editions including the original edition of 1705. Liegelsteiner "writes about dwarfing trees so that they look like a very beautiful big tree, but only much smaller. He understands tree physiology like only a small minority of bonsai enthusiasts today. He explains in detail how to shorten roots and transplant trees often, how to shorten branches, how to correct a one-sided tree. He explains how to cut back a tree to a stump, let the new shoots grow, cut them back at strategic points, let the new shoots grown again and cut them back. It is exactly the 'Chinese' clip-and-grow technique. He makes drawings which explain the development of a dwarf tree in a way that could not be improved" (Walter Pall, Dwarf Trees of George Liegelsteiner, in: Bonsai Magazine 3 [2000]). The edition offered here is the final one, published after the death of its author, with a very interesting new preface which attempts to sketch a history of dwarf trees in Europe. It suggests that the art of growing Bonsai trees came to Versailles in the late 17th century. One of the Versailles gardeners, Grottendorf, settled in Berlin and experimented more on it. Eventually he was appointed head gardener to the wealthy merchant and Councillor Georg Bose's garden, the "Kleinbosischer Garten", in Leipzig. Liegelsteiner received advice from Grottendorf about the art of growing dwarf trees. - OCLC locates the 2 copies in US: Berkeley and National Agriculture Library; also: Berkeley (1703 ed.); Delaware, Agricult. Library, and Berkeley (1716); Berkeley and Cincinnati Museum Centre (1725)]; COPAC locates only British Library (1702 ed.) and Kew Gardens (1702 ed., their 1716 ed. 'is lost at binders' ). A very good copy. Not in Dochnahl, Hunt, Lindley Lib., Nissen, Plesch, Pritzel, Oak Sprink Sylva.
8vo. 16 pp. Original printed wrappers, bound within modern boards. With the author's three-line-autograph inscription to his friend Friedrich Schwandner, with whom he had studied at Tübingen and formed an illicit students' union, the "Corps Guestphalia", for which reason the two had been arrested in 1837. Both works, "Über die Torricellische Leere" and "Über Auslösung", were separately published in 1875 and 1876 within the "Beilage des Staatsanzeigers für Württemberg". Eisert 29.
Large 4to. 2 parts in one volume. (8), XXXIX, (1), 307, (1) pp. (4), 309-633, (3) pp. With woodcut vignette to both title pages, several woodcut illustrations in the text, and printer's device on last leaf. Fine contemporary French éventail leather binding. Wants ties. Second, posthumous edition. Previously, Montebruni (1597-1644) had published his "Ephemerides" for the years 1640-45 and 1645-60. "D'apres les tables de Lansberg, pour le méridien de Bologne. Dans la part I de la publication, il y a un catalogue d'étoiles, réduites à 1630" (Houzeau/L.). - Edges, corners and spine-ends professionally restored. Sumptuous giltstamped éventail-style binding: double borders of a narrow zig-zagging design and a wider rosette-and-flower-design within floral braces and double fillets enclose a large central compartment, the corners of which are occupied by round-headed pointillé fans emanating from tendril corner stamps. The same éventail stamps form an elaborate central rosette with tendril stamps at top and bottom ends. The empty space in between in filled in by intricate tendril and dentelle blindstamping. The various elements of the design are starkly set off by empty quarter-inch fillet borders enclosing the corner éventails with quadrants and the central rosette with a lozenge; the tendril infilling is structured by the same blank borders forming a cross, thus dividing the cover into four richly tooled, mirroring quarters. The spine is framed by the same zigzag and floral borders as the covers, enclosing a narrow blank border and a finely tooled dentelle and semi-rosette design echoing the cover infilling. - Title page bears 1772 ms. note of ownership by the Capuchin monk Giovanni da Cento, who introduced the volume to his monastery's library in Cento (Emilia-Romagna). Later in the library of the Swedish collector Thore Virgin (1886-1957) with his repeated signature (dated Stockholm, 16 May 1914) and his bookplate (dated 1911) and collection stamp ("Bibliotheca Qvarnforsiana"). Additional bookplate of Rolf Wistrand. Riccardi II, 180, 2. Houzeau/Lancaster 15161. OCLC 68956764. Lalande 211 ("1640").
4to. 2 vols. (out of 10). XVI, 222 pp. IX, (1), 256 pp. With 2 hand-coloured, engraved title pages and 225 hand-coloured, engraved plates (some folding), numbered 1-222, with a/b numbers for 114, 172, 198). Contemporary half calf with giltstamped green spine labels. Marbled endpapers. All edges sprinkled in red. The first two volumes of this rare work of decorative plates showing flowers and other plants, including fruits. Contains the first 225 of a total of 1090 engravings published until 1820. The Viennese physician Vietz, who combined artistic talent with a penchant for botany, began publication of this monumental ten-volume work in 1800; only the first three volumes were edited by him personally. The Natural History Museum, London, described its own copy thus: "Today, the work appears to be of extreme rarity, not being held in any other of the United Kingdom's national or public library collections. Only three copies have been found in North American libraries, of which two are certainly fragile and in need of conservation. One copy is in the Austrian National Library" (Great Flower Books [1990], p. 147). - Clean and well-preserved throughout. Nissen, BBI 2062. Stafleu/Cowan 16.153. Pritzel 9764. Wurzbach 50, 282f.
Folio (200 x 323 mm). 2 parts in one vol., with appendix. (14), 516, 40, (4) pp. Title-page printed in red and black. With engraved title by R. Hooghe and 111 (instead of 114) engraved plates after Witsen (1 folded). Contemporary full calf over wooden boards with giltstamped borders, spine, and spine-title. First edition. The standard work on shipbuilding by a Dutch author - the leading nation in naval architecture in the early modern period. This seminal work contains detailed descriptions and illustrations as well as an account on the history of navigation and ship building since antiquity, discussing construction techniques, different types of ships, and naval architecture from across the world as observed by the author during his travels. - Nicolas Witsen (ca. 1640-1717) was mayor of Amsterdam 13 times between 1682 and 1706. In 1693 he became administrator of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). In his free time he was a cartographer and maritime writer, as well as an expert on Russian affairs. - Binding somewhat rubbed; front hinges broken. Title-page waterstained; upper portion of the gutter waterstained in entire first half of the volume; occasional marginal tears, browning and light fingerstaining. Still a good working copy of the classic that in 1697 inspired Tsar Peter the Great to a four-month training period at the Dutch East India Company shipyards organised by Witsen. Landwehr, Romeyn de Hooghe 16. NNBW IV, 1473. Cf. Poggendorff II, 1344 (Latin title).
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original full dark brown leather bdg. Decorated borders on boards, five compartments on the spine, second lettered gilt in the title. Cr. 8vo. (19 x 14 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 294 p., 17 folded engraved plates, and richly engraved illustrations. Early edition of this extremely rare encyclopedic book of the first comprehensive Ottoman engineering including the firsts in Ottoman literature of science, especially on various subjects of modern physics and mechanics, cartography, map making, surveying, arrangement of army camps, construction of pulleys, cannon shooting, etc. This book was written by Hüseyin Rifki, who was the chief professor of the Mühendishâne [i.e. Ottoman Engineering School] and was assigned to Medina, Arabia in 1816 to repair the holy buildings in Medina, Arabia. Another important aspect of the book is that it contains the ratios between the measurements used in various European countries before the meter system and the Ottoman measurements, as well as French measures and scales. Early typographic imprint on European paper with a watermark. Hüseyin Rifki translated the ancient mathematician Euclid's book Elements, in which he laid the foundations of geometry, from the English original of the English mathematician John Bonnycastle (1760-1821) in 1789, into Turkish with the name of "Usul-i Hendese", together with Selim Efendi, a converted English engineer. He was appointed as "Engineering-i Berri-i Hümâyûn Serhocasi" [i.e. The Chief Professor of the Engineering School] after the Code of Engineers was put into effect in 1806. He served as the chief teacher between 1806 and 1816. He was sent to the Balkans in 1816 and then was assigned to repair the holy buildings in Medina, Arabia. He died in 1817, just after returning from Mecca to Medina. Özege 12620.; TBTK 14349.; This edition is not located in OCLC.
4to. (6), 372 pp. Engraved additional pictorial title with letterpress explanatory leaf, 3 hand-coloured engraved plates. Contemporary tree calf, spine gilt, marbled edges. First edition of this rare monograph on snakes. Text printed intwo columns throughout in Dutch and French. The fine plates, drawn from nature by W. Veltman and engraved by J. C. Philips, show an unidentified snake, a viper, and a slow-worm. A printed explanation is provided opposite the engraved title. - Johannes van Lier was a politician, lawyer, tax collector and Deputy of Drenthe. He wrote several treatises on a wide variety of subjects including history, archaeology and natural history. - Marginal adhesion mark to L4 and M1, very faint dampstaining to some gatherings. Extremities lightly rubbed, head- and tailcaps more heavily, spine label slightly defective. Nissen ZVB 2509.
8vo. 107, (1) pp. - (Bound with) II: Bischof, Johann Christoph. Betrachtungen des Weltgebäudes und einiger Merkwürdigkeiten der Natur. Danzig & Leipzig, Wedel, 1764. (40), 226, (12) pp. With 14 engraved plates. - (Bound with) III: Schmid, N[icolaus Ehrenreich Anton]. Von den Weltkörpern. Zur gemeinnützigen Kenntniss der großen Werke Gottes. Hannover, [Schlüter], 1766. (12), 172 pp. - (Bound with) IV: Huygens, Christian. Weltbeschauer oder vernünftige Muthmaßungen, daß die Planeten nicht weniger geschmükt und bewohnt seyn, als unsere Erde. Zürich, Orell, Geßner u. Comp., 1767. (8), 224 pp. (Bound with) V: Dommerich, Johann Christoph. Sphaerologia Oder Kurzer Unterricht Wie sowol Die Himmels als Erdkugel beschaffen, und recht zu gebrauchen [...]. Lemgo, Meyer, 1745. (16), 164, (12) pp. With 6 (instead of 8) folding engr. plates. With engr. title vignette and 4 engr. plates. Contemporary half calf with giltstamped title to spine. Splendid sammelband containing five rare 18th-c. "Cosmologica" (spine title). - I: Very rare first German edition of Maupertuis' "Essai de cosmologie" published the previous year. Not in OCLC or German auction records. - II: First edition of the only work published by Bischof, teacher at the Stettin Gymnasium; treats fixed stars, comets, will-o'-the-wisps, dew, storms, and rainbows. Very rare; only a single, faulty copy in auction records (R&A, 71, 2196; wanting frontispiece and 4 engravings). - III: First edition of Schmid's much-reprinted and translated principal work. Treats the earth, the planets, their orbits, size, and distance, the sun, light, gravitation, fixed stars, and comets. Schmid was among the first astronomers to attempt using the new science of electricity for sun physics. - IV: Second German edition. "In contrast to most other Huygensian writings, Cosmotheoros has had wide appeal and a broad readership and has been translated into several languages" (DSB). V: First edition of this standard work about constructing and using terrestrial and celestial globes, written by the 21-year-old scientist and philosopher. The plates depict globes, the world model according to Ptolemy and Tycho Brahe, etc. Wants two plates. Very rare; only one copy in German postwar auction records. No copy in America (OCLC). - Binding somewhat rubbed and bumped. Frontispiece of II remargined (not touching image), otherwise clean and wide-margined throughout. Exceptionally well-preserved sammelband containing three rare works on applied astronomy and the much-sought German editions of two classic works of modern astronomy. Ms. ownership note "CMB" on front pastedown; ms. table of contents on flyleaf. I: Fromm 16973. - II: Houzeau/L. 8890. Roller/G. I, 121. Poggendorf I, 203. - III: Hirsching XI, 261-263. Lalande 512. HAB Mass, Zahl und Gewicht 11.11 (only later eds.). - IV: Cf. DSB VI, 611. V: Lalande 428. Houzeau/L. I, 9758. Meusel II, 406. ADB V, 326.
4to. (6), 161, (21) pp. With 58 figures on 10 (counting 1 as frontispiece) engraved plates, mostly folding. Contemporary half calf with label to gilt spine. Second edition of the work first published in Frankfurt in 1719 under a slightly different title and the pseudonym of "Gregorius Anglus Sallwigt". Important for the history of Rosicrucianism, "the mystical content of which is very much unclear" (Kopp). An enlarged version, entitled "Opus Mago-Cabbalisticum et Theosophicum [...]", was published in 1735 under the name of the author (who had died in 1727) and was reprinted in 1760 and 1784. Compared with later copies, the present one is not only more beautifully printed, but also has larger plates and is generally executed with greater accuracy. "The ten folding plates are of absorbing interest to the Rosecrucian turn of mind. Goethe studied this book intensively" (Hoover). Details about Welling (1652-1727), according to Hoover "a man of great learning but very superstitious", the various editions of his works and their content are provided by Frick, Die Erleuchteten, pp. 54, 491ff. and 426ff.: "At the beginning of the eighties of the 18th century, Welling's Opus Mago-Cabbalisticum became the most important text and instruction book of the Order of the Gold- and Rosicrucians [...] The fourth chapter of the first part, 'De mundo archetypo', was transferred almost verbatim into the instruction documents of the first Degree of the Order". - The fine engravings depict geometrical figures and cabbalistic symbols, among them the "Systema Magicum Universi". Slightly browned and insignificant spotting; occasional underlinings and pencil marginalia, otherwise a good copy. Ferguson II, 317. Duveen 526. Neu 4323. Ferchl 466. Mellon 150 (note). Kopp II, 240. Cf. Hoover 872.
4to. LXXVIII, (2), 416, (84) pp., including 27 letterpress tables. With engraved armorial title vignette and 9 (instead of 10) engraved folding plates. Contemporary half vellum over marbled boards with giltstamped calf spine label. First edition of the pioneering regulations for two Florence hospitals, marking "the first appearance in print of [Chiarugi's] landmark reforms in the humane treatment of the mentally ill" (Garrison/M.). - In 1774 Grand Duke Peter Leopold of Tuscany (later Emperor Leopold II) promulgated Europe's first law concerning the hospitalization of persons recognized as being insane, and several years later he undertook to build a new hospital for the mentally ill. In 1875 the young physician Vincenzo Chiarugi, who had studied at the University of Pisa and then at the hospital of Santa Maria Novella in Florence, was given responsibility to plan the new hospital of San Bonifacio, which opened in 1788. The following year the regulations of the hospital were published, together with the statutes of the hospital of Santa Maria Nuova. The regulations reflect Chiarugi's pioneering attitude towards the treatment of the insane: "A detailed history was required for each patient admitted to the hospital. The hospital was built to meet high hygienic standards, men were separated from women, and the rooms and furniture offered full protection to the patients [...] under no circumstances could force be used on patients, and the only methods of restriction allowed were strait jackets and strips of reinforced cotton, in order to prevent impairment in the patient's circulation" (Mora). - The fine plates, carried out by G. Cecchi, G. Salvetti and others, include plans of the premises of both hospitals, images of the kitchen and heating system, and views of the facade, as well as an organisational chart for both hospitals combined. - Lacks the engraved frontispiece. Extremities and spine-label slightly rubbed; small defect to vellum at lower spine. Front view of the Bonifazio hospital with a larger tear; several plates show small tears, occasionally affecting image. Occasional light foxing throughout. A good copy of this landmark work. Garrison/M. 4920.2. Norman 474. G. Mora, "Vincenzo Chiarugi", in: Journal of the History of Medicine 14 (1959), p. 431.
8vo (160 x 228 mm). 2 vols. XVI, (2), 303, (1) pp. VII, 361, (3) pp. With a double-page plate in vol. 1 and a portrait frontispiece in vol. 2. Publisher's original green cloth. All edges gilt. First Hungarian edition of Darwin's "On the Origin of Species", called "the most important single work in science" (Dibner) and "a turning point, not only in the history of science, but in the history of ideas in general" (DSB). "No work of science has ever been so fully vindicated by subsequent investigation, or has so profoundly altered humanity's view of itself and how the living world works" (Wilson). - Translated by László Dapsy, revised by Tivadar Margó. Bindings a little rubbed, extremeties worn, interior quite clean. Original publishers' binding by Lajos Bóka of Pest signed with his blindstamp to the white lacquer endpapers. Freeman 703. OCLC 978009347. Természettudományi társulat vállalata II-III. Cf. PMM 344.
I: Zur Theorie der Lichtfortpflanzung in dispergierenden Medien. 1922. [Weil 120. Seelig 162. Schilpp-Shields 145. Boni 132]. - II: Zu Kaluzas Theorie des Zusammenhanges von Gravitation und Elektrizität. Erste [und zweite] Mitteilung. 1927. [Weil 156. Seelig 212]. - III: Riemann-Geometrie mit Aufrechterhaltung des Begriffes des Fernparallelismus. 1928. [Weil 161. Seelig 161. Boni 174]. - IV: Neue Möglichkeit für eine einheitliche Feldtheorie von Gravitation und Elektrizität. 1928. [Weil 162. Seelig 218. Cf. PMM 416]. - V: Einheitliche Feldtheorie und Hamiltonsches Prinzip. 1929. [Weil 166. Seelig 227. Schilpp-Shields 227. Boni 184. Cf. PMM 416]. - VI: Die Kompatibilität der Feldgleichungen in der einheitlichen Feldtheorie. 1930. [Weil 169. Seelig 239]. - VII: Zum kosmologischen Problem der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie. 1931. [Weil 179. Seelig 249, Schilpp-Shields 249]. - VIII: Systematische Untersuchung über kompatible Feldgleichungen, welche in einem Riemannschen Raume mit Fernparallelismus gesetzt werden können. 1931. [Weil 180. Seelig 250. Schilpp-Shields 250]. - IX: Einstein & W. Mayer: Einheitliche Theorie von Gravitation und Elektrizität. 1931. [Weil 182. Seelig 251. Hook/Norman 701]. - X: Einstein & W. Mayer: Einheitliche Theorie von Gravitation und Elektrizität. Zweite Abhandlung. 1932. [Weil 185]. 10 of a total of 36 "Sonderausgaben aus den Sitzungsberichten" published under Einstein's name between 1914 and 1932. Such offprints of the session reports of the Academy of Sciences (largely with independent pagination) were presented to the author by the publisher in a limited number as vouchers or dedication copies. - The present offprints date from Einstein's middle and late period at the Berlin Academy. They mainly treat the connection between gravity and electricity/electromagnetism. Einstein strove for a "unified field theory", as the General Theory of Relativity did not allow for properly integrating the electromagnetic field into the geometry of space-time. After a first attempt at a solution in 1925, Einstein tackled the problem again three years later, "only to find that Riemann's conception of space, on which the general theory was based, would not permit of a common explanation of electromagnetic and gravitational phenomena. In a series of papers devoted to the development of 'A Uniform Theory of Gravitation and Electricity' he outlined a new theory of space with a view to the unification of all forms of activity that fall within the sphere of physics, giving them a common explanation. All that would then remain to complete a scientific unison is the correlation of the organic and inorganic" (PMM 416). - The present offprints reach from the first publication after the Nobel Prize to the last but one before Einstein's leaving Germany. Three articles were published in collaboration with Einstein's assistant, Walter Mayer. - One issue with slight crease to front cover, otherwise very well preserved throughout.
4to. (8), XLVIII, 362, (14) pp. With 22 folding engraved plates, title vignette, and 19 engraved text vignettes. Contemporary vellum with double fillets, blindstamped centrepiece, and ms. title to spine. All edges sprinkled in red. First edition of the Parisian astronomer's work about the application of Newton's Laws to astronomy. The plates mostly depict astronomical and mathematical diagrams. The attractive text vignettes by Charles Nicolas Cochin le jeune (1715-90) are an early example of his book decorations. - Fine copy with ms. note of ownership by "Ed. Declercq, Prof." and bookplate "Dr. Hautrive père". - Important work, recently edited on microfilm in the "Landmarks of science" series. Poggendorff I, 840.
Kl.-Folio (200 x 305 mm). (8), 42 SS. Mit gest. Titelvignette und 4 (davon 2 gefalteten) gest. Tafeln mit ca. 80 beweglichen Teilen. Halbleinenband des 19. Jhs. mit goldgepr. Deckeltitel "Anatomie". Zweite verbesserte und noch zu Lebzeiten Hellwigs erschienene Ausgabe des erstmals 1716 erschienenen anatomischen Ansichtenwerks, einer Überarbeitung von Johann Remmelins "Catoptorum Microscosmicum". Von besonderem Interesse sind die vier von J. H. Werner gestochenen anatomischen Tafeln mit vielen ausklappbaren Teilen (einige lose in der Bauchhöhle; sichtlich jedoch alle Teile vorhanden). Christoph von Hellwig (1663-1721) war Stadtphysicus zu Erfurt, Publizist und Schöpfer des "Hundertjährigen Kalenders". - Einband etwas beschabt und gering bestoßen Titelblatt aufgezogen und knapp beschnitten, dadurch fehlt ein Teil des Impressums. Tafel IV im Falz hinterlegt. Durchgehend gebräunt und braunfleckig sowie wasserrandig. Wellcome III, 240. Waller 4288.
(10), 671, (17) SS. Titel in rot und schwarz gedruckt. Mit gest. Frontispiz und 9 Kupfertafeln. Pergamentband der Zeit auf 3 durchzogenen Bünden mit hs. Rückentitel. Dreiseitiger Rotschnitt. 8vo. Erste Ausgabe. "The best early accounts of arsenic, zinc, and a variety of pyrites" (Hoover). Bei dem von Henckel beschriebenen neuen Blau handelt es sich um das Soda-Ultramarin, das er mit dem Berlinerblau verwechselte. Zur wissenschaftshistorischen Einordnung vgl. Partington: "Henckel accepts Becher's theory of three earths. He also accepts Stahl's phlogiston theory. Henckel thought minerals were formed on the third day of Creation and increased and improved since" (II, 707). - Vorsatz und Titel mit zeitgenöss. hs. Rezensionsnotizen. Das Frontispiz am linken Seitenrand knapp beschnitten. Gutes Exemplar. Partington II, 706. Pritzel 3955. DSB VI, 259. Ferchl 225. Hoover 399.
Folio. 3 vols. 9, (3), 295, (1) pp. 9, (1), 296-546 pp. 16, 547-902 pp. With 364 colored lithogr. ornithological plates and numerous text illustrations. Conmtemp. half calf with title to gilt spine; faux raised bands colored black and raised with gilt fillets, enclosing the image of a bird). All edges marbled; marbled endpapers. A magnificent publication and the standard work on Scandinavian ornithology. Originally published between 1828 and 1838 in 105 installments. In addition to the original 184 plates, the present second edition contains reproductions of further drawings by the Wright brothers newly discovered in the Kungl. Vetenskaps-Akademien Stockholm and in the Helsingfors University Library. - "[D]ie Bilder schwedischer Vögel der Brüder von Wright [sind] so vorzüglich [...], daß man sie noch ein Jahrhundert später einer Neuausgabe für wert gehalten hat, wobei noch fast die gleiche Anzahl bisher unveröffentlichter Tafeln ans Licht gekommen ist" (Nissen, p. 54f.). - A fine, appealingly bound copy. Nissen, Vogelb. 1026. Anker 544. Wood 637.
