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Schott. Magia universalis.

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Modern calf, blind tooled. On both covers a broad
frame bordered by triple line fillets with a flower toolin the corner compartments. The centre filled withdiagonal lines forming a diaper pattern with flower
tools. Spine with 4 raised bands bordered by triple
line fillets. Blind title in compartment 2, year at the
tail. End leaves of 19th century paper. In cloth slipcase(Bound by Geert van Daal).

The first systematic treatise on
mining and metallurgy and one of the first
technological books of modern times (PMM)
Agricola, Georgius. [=Georg Bauer].
De re metallica libri XII. Quibus officia, instrumenta,
machinae, ac omnia denique ad metallicam spectantia,
non modo luculentissimè describuntur, sed & per effigies,
suis locis insertas, adiunctis Latinis, Germanicisqueappellationibus ita ob oculos ponuntur, ut clarius tradi
non possint. Eiusdem De animantibus subterraneis Liber,
ab autore recognitus: cum indicibus diversis, quicquid in
opere tractatum est, pulchrè demonstrantibus.

€ 16.500
Georg Bauer, latinized Georgius Agricola (14941555) was a physician who was comfortable with theclassics and corresponded with noted humanists
such as Eras-mus. His medical practice took him to
Joachimstal and to Chemnitz, important Central
European mining centres, where he learned enoughabout mining to invest profi-tably. He began to write
down his observations on geolo-gy, mineralogy,
metallurgy and mining practice. The De re metallica,
published shortly after his death, represents 15 yearsof collecting and writing these observations.

Basileae, (apud Hieron. Frobenium et Nicolaum
Episcopium), 1556. Folio (310 x 210 mm). [XII], 538[recte 502], [74] p.
With 2 woodcut printer's marks, 2 plates [1 folding],
267 large, many full page, woodcut illustrations
generally attributed to Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutschand [less commonly] to Blasius Weffring and 23
geometrical figures.

The De re metallica embraces everything connectedwith the mining industry and metallurgical

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processes, including administration, prospecting, theduties of officials and companies and the
manufacture of glass, sulphur and alum. The
magnificent series of 273 large woodcut illustrations
by Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch add to its value.
Some of the most important sections are those on
mechanical engineering and the use of water-power,
hauling, pumps, ventilation, blowing of furnaces,transport of ores etc. showing a very elaborate
technique.

Jan Wandelaar depicting the muscles of the hand,life-size

In Book V Agricola made an important contribution
to physical geology. He recognized the influence ofwater and wind on the shaping of the landscape andgave a clear account of the order of the strata he saw
in the mines. Agricola supplied a new scientificclassification of minerals based on their physicalproperties. He des-cribed 80 different minerals andmetallic ores [20 new ones], their mode of occurrence
and mutual relation.
Many large woodcuts present vivid pictures of men atwork, machines pumping, ventilating, smelting,assaying, transportation and hoisting equipment andmethods of his time.
Agricola dedicated the book to the Dukes of Saxony,a French Royal Privilege was obtained by Froben and
Episcopius in 1553. The second text on thesubterranean creatures is dedicated to Georgius
Fabricius and dated 1548.
-Literature: Printing and the Mind of Man, 79; VD16 A
907; Adams A349; DSB I, p. 77-79; Hoover, 17; Horst
743 f.; Duveen, 4; Darmstaedter, Agricola, 45 & 87f;
Michaelis-Prescher 21; Koch p. 6 and 34ff;
Grolier/Horblitt, 100 books famous in science, no. 2b;
Dibner, Heralds, 88; Spar-row, Milestones of science, no.
4; Norman collection I, no. 20; Duveen, Bibliotheca
Alchemica, p. 4-5; Ferguson, Bibliothe-ca Chemica I, p.
9-10; Singer, History of Technology III, p. 27ff.; Ward &Carozzi, 31; Brian Ford, Images of science, p. 124-125.

Albinus, Bernardus Siegfried.
Historia musculorum hominis.
Leidae Batavorum, apud Th. Haak & Henricum
Mulhovium, 1734. 4to (260 x 295 mm). 696 p.
With 8 engraved plates of the muscles of the hand by
Jan Wandelaar, each time the anatomy and theoutline with explanotary numbers.

-Condition: Blank leaf [α6] bound before [α1]; lower
edge of book block a small scratched portion; Somelight browning and light finger soiling; Stamp on
printed title & a1 removed and paper expertly filledin; the text lost due to the removal of the stamps, on
α1 & a1 recto & verso replaced in superb old pen.
Vague but visible water stain to lower front corner ofp. 447-472; a few marginal annotations in old pen;apart from the mentioned points a fine copy.
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Mottled calf. Gold tooled spine with 5 raised bands
and red title label. Marbled paste downs. Edges
coloured red.
€ 1.250
Bernard Siegfried Albinus (1697-1770) born inFrankfurt, was the finest descriptive anatomist of hisday. he was a pupil of Bidloo, Rau and Boerhaave. His
works were especcially endowed by the artistic
copperplates by the renowned Jan Wandelaar. These
were the first plates in which Wandelaar applied the2

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'architectonic' procedure of 'projective' transpositionof the objects to paper with the aid of a pair ofcompasses and a ruler.

By 1918 Bohr had visualized, at least in outline, thewhole theory of atomic phenomena. He of course
realized that he was still very far from a logicallyconsistent framework wide enough to incorporate
both the quantum postulates and those aspects ofclassical mechanics and electro-dynamics that
seemed to retain some validity.
Nevertheless, he at once started writing up asynthetic exposition of his arguments and of all theevidence upon which they could have any bearing; intesting how well he could summarize what was
known, he found occasion to check the soundness of
his ideas and to improve their formulation.
In the present case, however, he could hardly keep
pace with the growth of the subject; the paper he hadin mind at the beginning developed into a four-parttreatise, "On the Theory of Line Spectra",publication of which dragged over four years without
being completed; the first three parts appeared
between 1918 and 1922, and the fourth,
unfortunately, was never published. Thus the full
impact of Bohr's view remained confined to the small
but brilliant circle of his disciples, who indeed
managed better than their master to make them more
widely known by the prompter publication of theirown results. (DSB).

-Literature: Heirs of Hippocrates, *829; Wellcome
vol. II, p. 26; Garrison/Morton 7552; Blake, p. 9; Cole,
1359; Hirsch Vol. I, pp. 71 - 73; Choulant/Frank, p.
280; Haller, Bibl. Anat. vol. II, p. 127 (para 874);
Norman Coll., 28.
-Condition: Spine head damaged; Edges somerubbing; Marbled free end leaves missing; Somequires mediocre browned; Good copy.
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One of Bohr's most important papers and the basis
for his Nobel Prize- Literature: DSB II, p. 239-254.
- Condition: Upper cover of the first instalment
partly discoloured; Else a very fine copy.
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A Milestone in the history of Chemistry with apicture of a very early refrigerator

Bohr, Niels.
On the Quantum Theory of Line-Spectra.
København, Hovedkommissionaer: Andr. Fred. Høst
& Søn, Kgl. Hof-Boghandel, Bianco Lunos
Bogtrykkeri, 1918, 1918, 1922. 3 parts. 1-36, 37-100,
101-118 p.
Original printed wrappers.
First edition, offprint, issue without "Separate Copy"on the front wrapper. Trade edition, the lower
wrappers of the first 2 parts with [identical] adverts
up to 1920, the third part, with added adverts for the
3rd Bohr part 1922, added adverts for class V, nr 3
[Brünnich Nielsen], Class VI, 2 [Lundblad] and Class
VII, 1 [Wesenberg-Lund].
€ 2.900,-

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Boyle, Robert.

A rare work about chronology

New Experiments and Observations touching Cold, Or An
experimental History of Cold, begun. To which are added
an Examen of Antiperistasis, and an Examen of Mr.
Hobs's Doctrine about Cold. Whereunto is annexed An
Account of Freezing, brought in to the Royal Society, by
the learned Dr. C. Merret, A Fellow of it. Together with an
Appendix, containing some promiscuous experiments andObservations relating to the precedent History of Cold.
London, Printed for Richard Davis, Bookseller in
Oxford, 1683. 4to (202 x 155 mm). [XXX], 266, VIII, II,
II, 267-324, IV, 20, II, 29, [1] (blank) p.
With 2 engraved plates (p. 40 & 160).
Calf with gilt spine.
€ 3.500,"In discussing cold, Boyle gives an account of his
discovery of 'freezing mixtures' with the present-day
interpretation of the phenomenon. He proved that
ice has a smaller specific gravity than water and thatit must therefore expand on freezing. The work is
noteworthy also for a large number of physiologicalobservations ... he was aware that extreme cold
prevented the putrefaction of animial tissues, andrealized that cold could be utilized for thepreservation of meat" (Fulton pp. 50 - 52, specif. item
71).

Bucherius, Aegidius.
De Doctrina Temporum Commentarius In Victorium
Aquitanum nunc primùm post M.C.LXXVII. annos in
lucem editum, Aliosq. Antiquos Canonum Paschalium
Scriptores, Chronologiae Ecclesiasticae illustrandae ac
stabiliendae utilissimos.

"The second edition being equally important as thefirst 8vo edition of 1665 [of which many copies weredestroyed in the Great Fire of London). The 29 pp. at
the end contain Boyle's notes of the effects of coldon the [Hudson Bay Company's ] Captains andofficers in cold climates, Boyle became an adventurer
in this company in 1675 in order to collect thisinformation. Boyle's publication is a milestones in
the history of chemistry, since it uses a quantitative
tool [a graduated thermometer] to study theinteractions and chemical substances and mixtures.
Boyle gives accounts of 2 kinds of death from thecold and many observations on the action of cold on
different substances." (Wing B3997).

Antverpiae, Ex Officina Plantiniana Balthasaris
Moreti, 1634 (Colophon: 1633). Folio. (320 x 210 mm).
[XXXII], 500, [2] p. [*-****4, A-Qqq4 Rrr3, lacks Rrr4,
blank].
With engraved 'IHS' vignette on the title page, large
woodcut printer's mark " Labore et constantia" on
3R3verso (VH ), 3 nearly full-page woodcuts on p.
275, 279, 280, 15 large woodcut initials & 8 woodcut
end-pieces. Numerous letterpress tables throughout.
Title printed in red and black.

- Literature: DSB vol. II, p. 377-382; Neville, vol. I, p.
202-203; Partington vol. II, p. 509-510.

Vellum laced case binding with yapp edges. Title in(later) ink on the spine.

- Condition: Gold on spine faded away; Librarystamp on upper free endleaf; Else a very good copy.
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€ 950

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First edition. Aegidius Bucherius (1576-1665), was aFrench Jesuit and chronological scholar. In this work
he accumulated some of the older works about theCanon Paschalis, including the editio princeps ofAnatolius Alexandrinus (p. 433-466).

Marbled sheep. Gold tooled spine with 5 raised
bands and red title shield. Marbled end leaves.
€ 500
First French edition, appeared in the same year as
the first Dutch edition. These 3 last orations ofCamper (1722-1789), held in 1774, 1778 and 1782
were published after his death by his son Adrien
Gilles Camper and translated into French by Denis
Bernard Quatremere d'Isjonval. This work on
physiognomy includes Camper's description of his
craniometrical methods, the foundation of all
subsequent work. Camper is chiefly remembered forthe "facial angle" of his own invention.

-Literature: STCV 6667622; Ebert 2098b, (dates
1633); De Backer Sommervogel I, 1867, no. 2 (dates
1637); Beledimar 1921.
-Condition: Lacks the last blank leaf Rrr4; Stain on
frontcover; Title page waterstain on right upper
corner; free end leaves torn out.
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On the ressemblances of emotions shown in theface of man and animals-Provenance: Inpencil on fly leaf: "acheté à la ventede Langalerie" and "21 7bre 1861 Catalogue Ch. d.
L." The collection of Charles de Langalerie, directorof the Orléans museum, was sold at aution in 1870
-Literature: Bibliotheca Medica Neerlandica II, p. 39.
-Condition: Tail of the spine and corners damaged.
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One of the most important texts
in the field of mathematics

Camper, Petrus.
Discours prononçés par Feu Mr. Pierre Camper, enl'académie de dessein d'Amsterdam, sur le moyen deréprésenter d'une manière sûre les diverses passions qui se
manifestent sur le visage; sur l'étonnante conformité qui
existe entre les quadrupèdes, les oiseaux, les poissons etl'homme; et enfin sur le beau physique.
Utrecht, B.Wild et J.Altheer, 1792. 4to ( 255 x 205 mm).
[IV], VIII, 107, [1] p.

Descartes, Renatus.

With a portrait of Camper by Reiner Vinkeles dated
1778 and 11 folding outline engravings showing man
and animals.

Geometria, à Renato Des Cartes anno 1637 Gallicè edita;postea autem una cum notis Florimondi de Beaune,
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commentariis illustrata, operâ atque studio Francisci à
Schooten.

Descartes's application of modern algebraic arithmetic toancient geometry created the analytical geometry, which isthe basis of the post-Euclidean development of that science(Printing and the Mind of Man 129) It is given to but
few men to renovate a whole department of humanthought. Descartes was one of those few. ...Descartes
remade geometry and made modern geometry possible [...]DESCARTES DID NOT REVISE GEOMETRY; HE
CREATED IT. (Bell, Men of mathematics, Ch. 3, p. 35-55)

Amstelaedami, apud Ludovicum & Danielem
Elzevirios, 1659-1661. 2 volumes. 4to. (206 x 148 mm).
[XVI], 520; [XVIII], 420, [4] p.
With an engraved portrait of Descartes by Franciscus
à Schooten "ad vivum delineavit et fecit anno 1644"
with below a 6 line engraved dedicatory poem by
Constantijn Huygens.
With the woodcut printer's mark of Elzevier "Ne
extra oleas" on the title pages. Title page of vol. 1
printed in red and black.

-Literature: DSB IV, pp. 55-65; Willems, Les Elzevier
1244; Berghman 611; Rahir 1273; Copinger 1350:
Tchemerzine IV, p. 236; Brunet II, 610; Smith, Historyof mathematics, vol. II, 323; Matthijs van Otegem, Bibl.
of Descartes, vol. I, p. 117-129; Guibert, p. 29.

Sheep parchment laced case binding. On the spines
a brown coloured title field bordered by a decorativeroll, bearing the gold tooled title. End bands ofyellow and light brown silk. Edges coloured yellow.

-Condition: Bindings mediocre stained; somefragments of vellum lacking on the board edges; vol.
1 partly a waterstain in the upper margin, also
touching some text lines; throughout slightly stained;vol. 2 old & expertly executed removal of a small
owner stamp or inscription? Hardly noticeable, but
present when carefully scrutinized.
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Second, much enlarged Latin edition of thisfundamental mathematical work of Descartes, againedited by van Schooten and enlarged withcommentaries by Johannes Hudde, Hendrik van
Heuraet, Johan de Wit, Florimond de Beaune andFranciscus van Schooten.

Third edition of the French translation of thefounding work of Cartesianism

The first edition appeared in 1637 in dense French. It
was translated into a much clearer Latin andexpanded with a commentary and better figures by
Van Schooten in 1649, published by the Leiden
publisher Maire. Now for all scientist readable andbetter understandable, the Geometria started it's
triumph in the scientific world. In 1659/61 this 2 ndenlarged edition appeared by the Amsterdam
Elzeviers. The title of vol. 2 is differing from vol. 1:
Principia matheseos universalis. In 1683 appeared a 3 rdedition by Blaeu in Amsterdam.
Descartes (1596-1650) published his Geometry in
1637, although he had been working upon it for someyears,- even as early as 1619. The treatise formed anappendix to his "Discours" and was divided into 3
books. The 1st book treats the meaning of the productof lines. The 2nd book defines 2 classes of curves, thegeometric and the mechanic. The 3rd book is largely
algebraic, being entitled "On the construction ofsolid or hypersolid problems". It treats particularly ofsuch topics as the number of roots of an equation,"false roots", the increasing or decreasing of theroots, and the transformation of equations.

Descartes, Renatus.
Les meditations metaphysiques de René Des-cartes,
touchant la premiere philosophie. Dediées a messieurs deSorbone. Nouvellement divisées par articles avec dessommaires à costé, & avec des renvois des articles aux
objections, & des objections aux responses. Pour en
faciliter la lecture & l'intelligence. Par R[ené] F[édé].
Paris, Michel Bobin & Nicolas Le Gras, 1673.
Troisième edition. Reveuë & corrigée. 4to (243 x 170mm). [XL], 754 [recte 732] p.

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Sprinkled calf, spine gold tooled. Spine with 5 raised
bands. Title in compartment 2, the othercompartments with a lozenge shaped floral tool andlarge corner tools. Board edges with a gilt roll.
Endbands of blue and white silk. Edges sprinkled
red and brown.

First Latin edition of Descartes

Les Passions de l'ame€ 975
Third French edition, identical to the 2nd edition
published in 1662.
During the year 1640 Descartes worked on his
second important book, which gave a much more
extensive survey of his system than the Discours, viz.
the Meditationes de prima philosophia. It was anelaboration of a philosophical treatise which healready wrote in Franeker in 1629.
A first Latin edition appeared in 1641, a second
Latin edition appeared in 1642, published in
Amsterdam by Louis Elzevier and revised by
Descartes himself. This second edition was
supplemented with a 7th refutation from Father
Bourdin [our copy pp. 605-754] and con-tained theletter to Father Dinet [our copy pp. 555-604].
This edition was the basis for the translations into
French, of which the first one appeared in 1647
under supervision of Descartes, the translators being
The Duke of Luynes and Clerselier. As a result the
French translation is more reliable and, preferredover the Latin one (edited by Mersenne, containing
mistakes in the text and even deleting a few pages atthe end of Descartes' answer to the 4 th refutation on
the Eucharist).

Descartes, Renatus.
Passiones animae per Renatum Des Cartes: Gallicè ab
ipso conscriptae, nunc autem in exterorum gratiam Latina
civitate donatae ab H.D.M. I.V.L. [Henricus Des Marets
Iuris Utriusque Licentiatus].
Amstelodami, apud Ludovicum Elzevirium, 1650.
12mo (133 x 75 mm). [LVI],242, [14] p.
With the woodcut printer's mark 'ne extra oleas' on
the title page.
Vellum laced case binding with yapp edges. Title inink on the head of the spine. Green slik end bands.
Edges sprinkled blue.

Descartes' investigation into the true ontology led
him to the radical division of created exeistence into
matter as simply extended substance, given motion at
the creation, and mind as unextended thinking
substance. This conclusion he held to be guaranteedby the perfection of God, who would not deceive true
reason. With the publication of the meditations
Cartesianism as a doctrine was founded.

€ 1.400-Provenance: In pen on the upper end leaf: "ch.
chavott."

This work was first published in 1649 in French as
Les Passions de l'ame. Descartes wrote it in the small
Dutch village of Egmond aan den Hoef andcompleted it in 1648, before his final trip abroad toQueen Christina of Sweden. In the same year
appeared also a quarto edtion.

-Literature: Guibert, p. 60, no. 11; DSB IV, p. 51-65:
Tchemerzine IV, p. 292, d; Serrurier, Descartes. Leer enLeven (1930), p. 77-100.
-Condition: Spine ends and raised bands a bit
rubbed; else a very fine copy.
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Les Passions de l'ame, which drew heavily on the then- unpublished Traité de l'homme, contains theapplication of Descartes' mechanistic physiology to

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the relationship between mind and body. Descartes
made an essential distinction between the soul as thedivinely-endowed seat of consciousness, will andrational thought, and the body as a machine or
automaton subject to the laws of physics, and only
indirectly controlled by the soul through the nerves.
Using this dualistic model, he was able to make theimportant distinction between voluntary andinvoluntary actions, [...] Descartes located the soul inthe pineal gland, which thus served as the locus forinteraction between soul and body; he had defined
the pineal gland's function in the Traité, but Les
Passions de l'ame contains his first published accountof it. The work also contains the first use of the word
"reflex" in connection with the action of the nervous
system.' (Norman Collection).

The use of ether against pain and its risks

Dieffenbach, Johann Friedrich.
Der Aether gegen den Schmerz.

Cartesian physiology and philosophy had a powerful
influence on the thinking of such men as Robert
Hooke, Giovanni Borelli, Jan Swammerdam andThomas Willis. Descartes' theories helped to explainin understandable mechanistic terms the morepuzzling problems of human physiology during atime when scientific research was expanding rapidly.
It was the last book that Descartes wrote. (Heirs of
Hippocrates).

Berlin, in Commission bei A. Hirschwald (Gedruckt
bei J.Petsch), 1847. 8vo (175 x 118 mm). XII, 228 p.
With 1 lithographed plate of the inhaler.
Half cloth with handwritten title on orange title
label.
€ 4.500

Descartes believed the soul to be a definite entity,
giving rise to thoughts, feelings, and acts of volition.
He was one of the first to regard the brain as anorgan integrating the functions of mind and body.
(G&M).

Shortly before his death, in 1847, the plastic surgeon
Dieffenbach (1792-1847) wrote this small monographin which he recorded the results of his experience ofetherization. Dieffenbach expressed the opinion thatsince ether was able to obviate completely even themost intense pain during capital operations, itafforded the greatest possible relief to the patient;but for the surgeon it merely made matters moredifficult. He stressed the dangers of etherization. He
found indeed, that the post-operative condition of
the patients who had been etherized was in generalless favourable than of patients operated upon
without ether.

-Provenance: 1) Stamp on title page: "Bibl. Sancta
Pauli Oosterholto" and on verso title page stamp:"Bibl. Slangenburgensis". 2) A manuscript annotation
on upper pastedown: "Emi Bremae 4 Solis / AO
1681[?] die 6 Mensis Febr"-Literature: Willems, Les Elzevier, no. 1105;
Berghman no. 370; Heirs of Hippocrates, no. 467;
Norman Collection I, 625; Garisson & Morton, 4965;
Thijssen-Schoute, Nederlands Cartesianisme [1954],
paragraph 299-301, on Maresius and his son Hendrik
Maresius as translator of the French 'Passions' in
1650; Brazier, Hist. of neurophysiology in the 17th and 18thc., p. 18-28; Guibert 1, p. 150f; DSB IV, p. 55-65;-Provenance: Upper free end leaf with signature inink "A. Koehler'.
-Literature: Hirsch vol. II, p. 264; Duncum, pp. 138 139; Armstrong Davison, The Evolution of Anaesthesia,
p. 118.

-Condition: Free end leaves torn out; Vellum cleaned;else a very fine copy.
~~~~~-Condition: Half title and title some light browning;Throughout some foxed spots; Boards a bit rubbed
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edition. Dufour describes the chemical andtherapeutic qualities of the beverages and the ways toprepare them. The three engravings depict a Turk, aChinese and an American Indian with the relevant
plants in the lower part of the plates.

A classic work on coffee, tea and chocolate

Dufour (1622-1687), a pharmacist and herb seller in
Lyon, mentions as his sources Naironi and Bernier(coffee), Nieuhof, Tulp, Simon Paulli a.o. (tea) and
Colmenero de Ledesma, Th. Gage, Caldera de
Heredia, De Laet a.o. (chocolate).
-Literature: Bitting, Gastronomic bibliography 134;
Hunersdorff, Coffee: a bibliography 1, 442; Mueller,
Bibliographie des Kaffee, des Kakao, der Schokolade, desTee und deren Surrogate 68; Pritzel, Thesaurus
literaturae botanicae omnium gentium 2461: Vicaire,
Bibliographie gastronomique 294: Oberlé, Les fastes deBacchus et de Comus 732.
-Condition: Frontispiece bound at the beginning of
the main work; the lower parts of the plates arefolded; some worming in the inner joint of thepastedowns and small hole in the title page; Else avery fine copy.
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A major work of the Prince of Mathematics
Dufour, Philippe Sylvestre.
Tractatus novi de potu caphé, de chinensium thé; et dechocolata.
Parisiis, apud Petrum Muguet. 1685. 12 mo (152 x 90mm). [VI], 202, [6] p. (last leaf blank).
With an engraved frontispiece and 3 engraved plates.
Limp sheep parchment laced case binding with yappedges. Title in ink on the head of the spine.
Endbands of white thread.
€ 1.200"The work by Dufour upon coffee, tea, andchocolate is a classic. It is the standard reference
for
the
early
historyandmethods
ofpreparation."(Bitting)First Latin edition of this classic work on coffee, tea
and chocolate. This Latin edition appeared
simultaneously with 2 French editions. An English
and German edition appeared soon thereafter.
Published first as an anonymous work in 1671 thebook was considerably revised and enlarged for thisGauss, Carolo Friderico.
Theoria motus corporum coelestium in sectionibus conicis
solem ambientium.

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Hamburg, F. Perthes & I.H. Besser, 1809. 4to (290 x 228mm). XII, 227, [1](errata), 20 (tables)p.

Helmholtz, H. (L.F.) von.
Beschreibung eines Augen-Spiegels zur Untersuchung derNetzhaut im lebenden Auge.

With 1 engraved plate.
19th century boards with blind modern spine.

Berlin, A. Förstner'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung (P.
Jean-renaud) (printed by Trowitzsch), 1851. 8vo (237 x
138 mm). 43, [5] p. (Last leaf blank).

€ 4.500

With 1 engraved plate showing the miror.

Carolo Friderico Gauss (1777-1855) developed inthis work and introduced the system of orbit
calculation from 3 observations he had devised in
1801 to locate the planetoid Ceres. It is anepochmaking work, since Kepler's Astronomia Nova
the most perfect textbook on motion in unperturbed
orbits (Norman Collection). As "The Prince ofmathematics"Gauss ranks, together with Archimedes
and Newton as one of the greatest geniuses in thehistory of mathematics

Modern calf. Original wrappers bound in.
€ 6.000
Printed in a very small edition, this is considered oneof the rarest classics of the 19th century.
"Although visualization of the fundus had beenaccomplished prior to Helmholtz's publication, bothby Johannes Evangelista Purkyne and by Charles
Babbage, Helmholtz was the first to convince theworld of the importance of the ophthalmoscope. The
value of the instrument was immediately appreciatedby ophthalmologists, including William Bowman,
Frans Cornelis Donders, and Albrecht von Graefe.
And it was through Graefe's efforts in particular thattheophthalmoscope
becamepartofthearmamentarium of ophthalmologists throughout
Europe and America. He [Helmholtz] never practiced
ophthalmology, but his invention, which gave
ophthalmologists the ability to examine what had
previously been called "the black cataract", greatly
improved the capacity for diagnosis of eye diseases
and thus revolutionized visual science." (Grolier club)-Provenance: Small stamp 'E.B' within circle on title
page.
-Literature: PMM, 257; Norman Collection I, 879;
DSB V, 298/315; Houzeau & Lancaster 11897.
-Condition: Spine ends damaged; board edges
rubbed; innerly a fine copy with large margins.
~~~~~
The greatest event in the history of ophthalmology-Literature: Grolier Club, 100 books famous inmedicine, no. 65; Münchow, p. 576 etc.; Mitchell III,98; Hirsch III, 151; Hirschberg para 1022; G&M 5866;
DSB VI, 241-53.
-Condition: A very fine copy.
~~~~~

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translation of Nicolo Leoniceno (1428-1524). With adedicatory letter of Alban Thorer (1489-1550).

Beautifully bound rare Hippocrates & Galenus in
Greek & Latin

The reformers roll used on this binding is Haebler
1540.10 (vol II, p. 15), not present in EBDB.
-Provenance: In ink on fly leaf: "15 ME 62 Egidius
Kunhauserus".
-Literature: VD16, H-3755 (7 copies); Adams H-578;
Hoffmann II, 273.
-Condition: Few neat small pen marginalia in Greek
and Latin; On the upper flyleafs some larger old pen
annotations (citations); Binding a bit soiled; A very
attractive copy.
~~~~~
The thoracic duct in man – Very rare

Hippocrates & Galenus.
Aphorismorum, Lib. viii. Eiusdem praesagiorum Lib. iii.
Item de natura humana Lib. I. Praeterea de ratione victus
in morbis acutis Lib. iiii. Postremo Galeni ars medicinalis,
Graece & Latine.
Basiliae, apud Henrichum Petrum, (1543).
Small 8vo (147 x 98 mm). [XVI], 644, [4] p.
With a woodcut printers device on the last leaf andsome woodcut initials.
Beautiful alumn tawed pigskin over wooden boards.
On the covers a broad border of a reformers roll withthe heads of Luther, Melanchton and Erasmus, dated
1540. In the central panel aligned flower tools and on
the upper cover the year 1553. Spine with 3 raised
bands and filled with decorative tools. Board edges
partly bevelled. 2 brass clasps. On the front edge inpen"Medicamen liber".

Horne, Ioannes van.
Novus Ductus Chyliferus. Nunc primum delienatus,
descriptus & eruditorum examini expositus.
Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden], E [sic] Typographeo
Francisci Hackii, 1652. 4to [*4, A-D4; 4 lvs., 16 lvs.].
(VIII, 30, II (blank) pp.). (D4 blank).

€ 2.400
With woodcut printer's mark and 1 full pageengraving.

Beautifully printed bilingual edition in 2 columns,
with on one page the Greek text and the Latin
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Modern calf period binding.

Vellum laced case binding with yapp edges with on
the front cover the gold tooled initials "H.G.V.B.".

€ 5.500€ 4.000
Very
rare.
"Severalinvestigators,
working
independently, are credited with the discovery of thethoracic duct. Although already observed in a horseby Eustachius (1563), the first lucid descriptions weremade by Jean Pecquet (1647), Johannes van Horne(1651), and Olaus Rudbeck (1651/2). Pecquet
observed the structure when he, as a medical student
in Montpellier, opened the thoracic cavity of a dog,
he discovered the cisterna chyli,... Johannes vanHorne, Professor of anatomy in Leyden, without
knowing of Pecquet's work, accidentally discovered
the thoracic duct in man. During an autopsy in 1651,
he encountered lymph in the region of the left
kidney. Tracing the source of the lymph, hediscovered the cisterna chyli and the thoracic duct ofwhich he gave an account that next year. ("Novus
ductus...")". (Gans, H., 'On the discovery of thelymphatic circulation' [in: Angiology, Vol. 13, nr. 11
nov. 1962 ).
The copy in the library of the New York Medical
Society has a dedicatory poem on the blank D4, thiswould be a later variant of the copy we offer herewith the D4 leaf blank. The dedicatory poem would
normally be found in the prelims and it would seem
copies with the poem were printed later, in this way
honouring the author and getting rid of a blank leaf
in one action.
-Literature: Hirsch, vol. 3, p. 300; DSB vol VI, p. 508- 509; Krivatsy, 5994.

The first edition of one of Kircher’s most important,enduring, and informative works. He attempted tocompile in this book all the musical knowledge
available in those days, making it the first exhaustive
encyclopaedia of music. The plates show voices ofanimals, organs, anatomy of the ear, musicalinstruments, concepts about acoustics and echo. For
musicologists it has often been an invaluable sourceof information on baroque concepts, of style andcomposition.

-Condition: A very fine copy of this rare work.
~~~~~
The first edition of Kircher's monumental main
work on music
Kircher, Athanasius.
Musurgia universalis sive Ars magna consoni et dissoni in
X. libros digesta.

Kircher reveals an astounding knowledge andunderstan-ding of contemporary music. The
Musurgia is also interesting for the history of
instrument making, as many plates are showing
ancient and contemporary instruments.

Romae, ex. typ. haeredum Francisci Corbelletti, 1650.
2 parts in 1 volume. Folio (330 x 215 mm). [XX], 690(=692); [II], 462, [38] p.

-Provenance: Initials in gold on upper cover"H.G.V.B.", fully written on flyleaf "Hermanni
Godefridi Baronis a Bocholtz Cathedralis" erasedline in the same handwriting and "Emptus quinque
Imperialibus". He is to be dated around theWith 19 (2 fold) (of the 20 engraved plates, lacks also
the engr. title page and portrait) and numerous
woodcut scores and illustrations in the text.

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appearance of this work and can be regarded as thefirst owner of the book.

With 3 engraved fontispieces, 1 portrait, 129
engraved textills, and somewhat arbitrarily 44 fullpage plates, 38 folding plates (of 39, folding plate inletter 77 not bound in at pp. 576 - 577). 15 engravedon 'slips', 2 woodcut illustrations (In letters L31 &L51).

-Literature: Brunet III, 668; Caillet 5785; De
Backer/S. IV, 1051; Eitner V, 369; Fétis V, 35; Graesse
IV, 21; Merrill 8; MGG VII, 938; Kat. Wolffheim I, 732.

Vellum laced case bindings with title in ink on thespines.

-Condition: Lacks the engraved title page to part 1,
the engraved portrait of archduke Leopold and theplate to p. 30 (no. 3), depicting the sounds of thebirds; upper joint partly split; remains of old labels
on head and tail of the spine; edges som ink spots.
~~~~~€ 22.500'Leeuwenhoek's scientific life may be said to havebegun in about 1671, when he was 39 years old. Atthat time, developing the idea of the glasses used bydrapers to inspect the quality of cloth, he constructed
his first simple microscopes or magnifying glasses,
consisting of a minute lens, ground by hand from a
globule of glass, clamped between two small
perforated metal plates. ... From these beginning
Leeuwenhoek went on to grind about 550 lenses in
his lifetime... of increasing quality [possibly up to 500
power] ... L.'s instruments were not surpassed until
the nineteenth century. ... He was... able to rely uponsuch friends as de Graaf and Constantijn Huygens...
derived much of his scientific knowledge from Dutch
authors [Bontekoe, Swammerdam etc]... His mostimportant contributions were made in the field ofgeneral biology. ...made his most important discovery
early in his scientific career, in 1674, when herecognized the true nature of microorganisms.
Starting from the assumption that life and motility
are identical. he concluded that the moving objects
that he saw through his microscope were little
animals... 2 years later, in a letter of 9 October 1676,
communicated them to the Royal Society, where theycaused a sensation. ... Leeuwenhoek subsequently
described, in about 30 letters to the Royal Society,many specific forms of microorganisms, including
bacteria, protozoa, and rotifers, as well as his
incidental discovery of ciliate reproduction...
Microscopy, however, was only a tool that
Leeuwenhoek put at the service of his two lifelong
scientificconcerns:
his
study
of
sexualreproduction... and his study of the transport systemof nutrients in plants and animals. ... It was throughletters - more than 300 of them, written to privatescientists and amateurs in both Holland and othercountries - that Leeuwenhoek made his work known.
He wrote exclusively in Dutch, ... Leeuwenhoek
himself did not publish his work until 1684, when hebrought out some of his letters in Dutch... he initially
edited, reprinted, and reissued some of his lettersseparately or in groups of two or three, a practice that

Letters in Dutch of van Leeuwenhoek in 4 volumes

Leeuwenhoek, Anthoni van.
Ontdekte Onsigtbaarheeden. Being the generalengraved title of his collection of letters on various
subjects in Dutch, consisting of the first part named
Ontledingen en ontdekkingen, 7 continuations Vervolg,and as final part Send-brieven, all written to the Royal
Society in London.
Leiden, Cornelis Boutestein / Delft, Hendrik van
Kroonevelt / Delft, Hendrik Beman, 1693-1718. 19
parts in 4 volumes. Various editions. 4to (208 x 155
mm).

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has resulted in some bibliographical confusion. ...'(DSB vol. VIII, pp. 126 - 130)

One of the most important ophthalmoscopicalatlases of the 19th century-Details about the contents and the editions:
Leyden, Delft, Boutestein, Boutesteyn, Henrik van
Croonevelt, Krooneveld, Adriaan Beman. 1696, 1694,
1698, 1697, 1686 [Reprinted Cinnaber naturalis L48],
1704 [3rd ed. of 'Vervolg'], 1697 [2e Vervolg, 2nd ed.],1693 [3e Vervolg], 1st ed., 1694 [4e Vervolg, 1st ed.],1696 [Vijfde Vervolg, 1st ed.], 1697 [Sesde Vervolg, 1sted.], 1702 [Sevende Vervolg, 1st ed.], 1718.[SendBrieven, 1st ed.].
129 engraved textills, and somewhat arbitrarily 44 fullpage plates, 38 folding plates (of 39, folding plate inletter 77 not bound in at pp. 576 - 577). 15 engravedon 'slips', 2 woodcut illustrations (In letters L31 &L51).
Total 'make up' of plate count [i.e identification offull page, small folding, 'slip'] can vary because larger
paper copies have full page plates where smaller
copies will only accommodate a 'folding plate'. A
detailed survey of eds. collation and pagination andDobell, Schierbeek, vd Pas numbers is available on
request.

Liebreich, Richard.
Atlas
der
Ophthalmoscopie.
Darstellung
Augengrundes im gesunden und kranken Zustande.

desBerlin, Paris, A. Hirschwald & G. Baillière, 1863. Folio(395 x 290 mm). X, 42 p.

This set contains the following series of letters: Vol. I,
28 - 52; Vol. II (Vervolg der Brieven, 53 - 60, 3rd ed.
1704); Vol. II, Tweede, Derde, Vierde Vervolg derBrieven, letters 61 - 83, with an index of letters 28 52; Vol. III, (Vijfde, Sesde, Sevende Vervolg derBrieven) letters 84 -146; Vol. IV (Send-Brieven) ,letters I - XLVI : 28 - 52 in 2nd edition, 'Vervolg'[5360] in 3rd edition. Tweede Vervolg 2nd edition. 3rd 7th Vervolg and Send-Brieven in first edition.

With 12 chromolithographic plates (1 fold.)containing 57 illustrations of the eye, byWinckelmann & Söhne after paintings of Liebreich.
Modern black half morocco with red title shield.
€ 1.600-Literature: Heirs of Hippocrates, comp. 585 - 591;
Wellcome III, pp. 476 - 477 in detail; Bibliotheca
Walleriana, vol. II, 10887, 10888,10890, 10894, a, b;Cole library, 866; Von Hünersdorff / Hasenkamp, p.
865 - 866; Landwehr, R. de Hooghe as bookillustrator, pp. 16-18; Norman Coll. vol. I, 1301.

Rare first edition of the first atlas of the fundus andone of the most important ophthalmoscopical atlasesof the 19th century. In the preface Liebreich statesthat it was from Helmholtz himself that he firstlearned of the ophthalmoscope in 1851.
It was while he was an assistant at von Graefe's
Berlin clinic (1854-1862) that Liebreich took his
initial steps in the practical application of the new
instrument, resul-ting in the present work.
The 12 lithographic plates are after Liebreich's own
paintings. The unusualy detailed and comprehensive
accuracy of Liebreich's work assured it a lasting
place both in the 19th century practice and in thehistory of ophthalmoscopic literature (Münchow,
Geschichte der Augenheilkunde).

-Condition: Title on spine volume 3 different.
~~~~~-Provenance: With the round stamp of "Academischziekenhuis Leiden" on the title page.
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-Literature: Hirsch III, 782; Hirschberg par. 1094;
Gorin 145; Münchow 584; Garrison & Morton 5892;
Becker 236.

Pierre Lyonet (1706-1789) originally an artist andengraver, first became interested in the study of
insects through reading Pluche's Natural History, but
he was inspired to study them seriously by the first
volume (on "Chenilles et papillons") of Réaumur's'Memoires', which appeared in 1734. From him helearned method and the importance of being
exceedingly careful. Lyonet began systematic
observation on insects in 1736. In 1738 he undertook
to correct and expand a translation of F.C.Lesser's
Insectotheologica. Lyonet's annotations of thetranslation indicate that he was familiar with thesubject and that his ideas on the general biologicalproblems of his time were already formed. The Traité
was begun in 1745. Lyonet had originally planned atreatise on all the insects in the vicinity of The Hague
but decided to establish his own reputation in microanatomy. He examined the common goat mothcaterpillar (Cossus ligniperda) and the anatomy of its
chrysalis and imago. For this purpose he created his
own dissection microscope, which is kept in the Artis
Library in Amsterdam nowadays. The Traité
Anatomique is devoted wholly to the anatomy of thiscaterpillar and the plates, drawn and engraved by
Lyonet, portray the muscles, nerves, bronchia, heart,viscera, silk vessels, and the internal parts of the headwith astonishing precision. He developed a very
ingenious system of hatching, to highlight thediffernet elements in the etchings. The Traité
anatomique is therefore a triumph of the eye. He
believed first, that the world and all its creatures are avast cipher and, second, that the duty of man is to
decode it.'
"The modern morphologist, armed with highly
efficient binocular microscopes, would be severely
taxed to excel, or even to repeat, Swammerdam's
dissections of the body louse, Leeuwenhoek's
analysis of commercial cochineal, and Lyonet's
beautiful preparations of the larva of the goat moth."(Cole, History of comparative anatomy, p. 256, 310).

-Condition: Throughout a few spots & some surface
soiling; Righthand blank margin a vague waterspot;
Plate IV righthand margin and titles with a few tears
and chips; Some spots but generally a very attractive
copy of this almost artistic atlas.
~~~~~
A triumph of the eye: The rare first edition of
Lyonets "decoding" of the common goat mothLyonet, Pierre.
Traité anatomique de la chenille qui ronge le Bois deSaule.
Aux depends de l'auteur, La Haye, Pierre de Hondt,
Amsterdam, Marc Michel Rey, Londres Th. Becket &P. De Hondt, 1760.4to (255 x 20 mm). XXIV, 587, [3] p.

-Provenance: 1) "Koechlin MD" in pen on fly leaf; -2)
The printed ex libris of W.H. van Seters, with inpencil his date of purchase and price paid: 'F30,Sept. 1931. Van Seters, was biologist, member of the
Leeuwenhoek committee and author of theauthoritatvie biography on Lyonet published in 1962.

With 18 folding plates showing the different layers ofdissection of the common goat moth, etched in asuperb way by Lyonet. Title page in red and black.
Brown half sheep. Spine with 5 raised bands and title
label. Sprinkled edges.

-Literature: DSB VIII, pp. 579/80; Nissen, Zoologische
Buchillustration, no. 2618; Garrison &Morton, no. 305€ 1.950-Condition: Spine ends damaged; Joints and board
edges rubbed; Quire Sss a bit yellowed; Else a veryfine copy of this milestone in microscopy.
~~~~~

Rare first edition, on extra quality paper with very
early impressions of the marvellous etched plates by
Lyonet himself.
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the univer-sity chair in mathematics at Bologna,
having been prefer-red for that post to his younger
contemporary Galileo.
Magini wrote several astrological works that wereadmired in their time. In his Ephemerides he was thefirst to use the new Gregorian Calendar and it is the
only major ephemeris to show the ten-day gap in thedates in October of 1582 when the new calendar
went into effect.
He operated under a geocentric understanding of
the universe and created his own planetary theory
consisting of eleven rotating spheres. The rejecting of
the Copernican theory, which was then being
vindicated by Galileo and the conservatism of histhought, made him Galileo’s enemy. He was, in fact,
much more skilled in calculation than in theory, andhis ephemerides remained valid for a long time. In
Holland he became the proverbial author of the
prognostications in almanacs till far in the 19th c.
The Ephemerides is conceived in two volumes.
The first volume is introductory and contains after an
In Io. Stadium mathematicum ephemeridumquecompilatorem animadversio, 4 treatises. The firsttreatise deals with astrologiae naturalis, seu iudicariae
principiis ad apotelesmaticos Ptolemaei libros maximè
conducens, the second de explicatione, et praxi seu
operatione ephemeridum, the third De revolutionibus, seu
annuis reversionibus, and the fourth De syderibus, seu
fixis stellis. The second volume contains the ephemerisfor each year, starting with a short overview of thebasic facts followed by the tables.

The first time the new Gregorian calender
has been used

Magini, Giovanni Antonio.
Vol. 1: Ephemerides coelestium motuum ad annos XL. Ab
anno domini 1581. usque ad annum 1620. secundum
Copernici hypotheses, Prutenicosque canones, atque iuxta
Gregorianam
anni
correctionem
accuratissimè
supputatae. Ad longitudinem Gr. 32. 30'. sub qua inclyta
urbs Venetiarum sita est. Vol. 2: Novae ephemerides
coelestium motuum annorum 40. incipientes anno domini
1581. usque ad annum 1620. Secundum clarissimi viri
Nicolai Copernici hypotheses, Prutenicasque Reinoldi
tabulas accuratissimè supputatae, atque Gregorianae
correctioni Romani kalendarij accomodatae. Ad inclitae
urbis Venetiarum longitudinem.

-Literature: DSB 9 p. 12-13; Houzeau / Lancaster,
Bibliographie générale de l'astronomie, no 14859; Mieli,
Gli scienziati italiani I, 103, 1; Riccardi I2, 65, 2;Lalande, Bibliographie astronomique, p. 113-114; J. R.
Voelkel & O. Gingerich in: Journal for the History of
Astronomy, vol. 32, Part 3, no. 108, p. 239.

Venetiis, apud Damianum Zenarium, 1582. 2 volumes
4to (228 x 163 mm). [VIII], 208; 605, [3] leaves.
Collation: *8, A-Z8 &8 [con]8 Ŗ8; 2A-5G8 (G7,8 blank).

-Condition: NB The second half of volume 2 (leaf457-605, [3]) has been bound at the end of volume 1;
covers a bit warped; the ties are not present any
more; old handwritten name erased from the title
page of vol. 1; small water stain in the first leaves ofvol. 1; else a very fine copy of this rare work.

With 3 printer's marks (2 types), a portrait of Magini(verso title page part 1) and several woodcuts in the
text of the sun and planets to explain eclipses.
Contemporary vellum laced case binding with yappedges. Silk end bands. Edges coloured blue. Paper
labels with handwritten title on the top of the spine.
€ 4.000
Giovanni Antonio Magini (1555-1617) was anaccomplished Italian cartographer, astronomer,
astrolo-ger, and mathematician. In 1588 he received
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One of the earliest suggestions of the idea of themetric system,
the copy of William Molyneux & Joseph Letherland

which was to be taken as the universal unit of length.
This system should use the scale of 10, and took forits basal length an arc I' long on a great circle of theearth. This unit he called a "Milliare" or "mille", 0.001
of a "mille" being called a "virga" and 0.1 of a "virga"
being called a "virgula". These ideas were espoused
by Picard shortly after the book appeared and a little
later, in 1673, by Huygens. They were also favourably
received by members of the Royal Society.
Mouton's treatise is also of mathematical andastronomical interest: it contains his method ofaddition of number series by their differences (aprocedure discovered simultaneously by Leibnitz)
and gives a remarkably accurate figure for the
diameter of the sun at its apogee.
A very interesting feature of this copy is the factthat of pages 375/76 the original leaf and thecancellandum are both present, which is utterly rare.

Mouton, Gabriel.

-Provenance: -1) "W: Molyneux" in pen on title page.
William Molyneux (1656-1698) was astronomer andphysicist. His best-known scientific work is the
Dioptrica Nova, the first treatise on optics publishedin English (London 1692). He personally sent copies
to Newton, Halley, Locke, Hooke, Boyle, Flamsteed,and Huygens. He corresponded at length with John
Flamsteed, astronomer Royal. Molyneux was electedto the Royal Society in 1685. 2) "J. Letherland.
Londin. 1741" in pen on verso portrait.This places
the copy into the hands of Joseph Joseph
Letherland (1699-1764), a physician, educated atLeiden and M.D.Cambridge by Royal Mandate. He
was physician to George III's queen, 1761.
Letherland is credited with being the first to draw
attention in 1739 to the disease of diphtheria.

Observationes diametrorum solis et lunae apparentium,
Meridianarúmque aliquot altitudum solis & paucarum
fixarum. Cum tabulâ declinationum solis constructa ad
singula graduum eclipticae scrupula prima.
Huic adjecta est brevis dissertatio De dierum naturaliuminaequalitate; & de temporis aequatione. Una cum Nova
mensurarum geometricarum idea: Nováque methodo eas
communicandi, & conservandi in posterùm absquealternatione.
Lugduni [Lyon], Ex typographiâ Matthaei Liberal,
1670. 4to (218 x 153 mm). [X], 448 p.
With an engraved author's portrait and many
woodcut figures and text diagrams.

-Literature: Smith, History of mathematics II, 512 and649; Wolf, A history of science, p. 196-200; Daumas,
Scientific instruments, p. 127f; Honeyman Coll. V, 2259:
DSB IX, p. 554-555; Norman Coll. II, 1560; Lalande, p.
273f; PPM 260 (note); - On Molyneux: DSB IX, 464466; - On Letherland: DNB XXXIII, 131.

20th century half calf, tooled in gold. Spine with 5
raised bands. Title in compartment 2, the othercompartments a central round ornament and corner
tools. Year at the tail. Original end bands of green
and yellow silk. Edges coloured green.

-Condition: Later binding, new end leaves; Small
round stamp erased from the title page; Portrait cut
just into the engraving; tear in cancellandum page.
~~~~~€ 4.500,Gabriel Mouton (1618-1694) was a pioneer in
research on natural and practicable units ofmeasurement. He had been struck by the difficulties
and disagreements resulting from the great numberof units of length, for example which varied fromprovince to province and from country to country.
First he studied how the length of a pendulum with afrequency of one beat per second varies with latitude.
He then proposed to deduce from these variations
the length of the terrestrial meridian, a fraction of17

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A milestone in the history of tobacco

The first mention of lead poisoning and warning
against opium and mushrooms

Neander, Jean.
Traicté du tabac, ou Nicotiane, panacée, pétun: Autrement
herbe à la reyne, avec sa préparation & son usage, pour laplus part des indispositions du corps humain, ensemble lesdiverses façons de le falsifier, & les marques pour lerecognoistre: composé premierement en Latin par Iean
Neander, médecin à Leyden, & mis de nouveau enfrançois, par I.V(eyras).
Lyon, Barthelemy Vincent, 1626. 8vo (185 x 120 mm).
[VIII], 342, [2] p.
With 9 engraved plates.
Parchment laced case binding with yapp edges.
€ 1.900
First French edition. The first Latin edition appearedin 1622. - The Tabacologia of Neander, consolidated
much of the information provided by Liébault,
Monardes, Gohory, and others. The little that is new
in this treatise is of very definite value in the historyof tobacco, and that little is rendered more
impressive by the novel and accurate illustrations
which decorate the work. Among them are theearliest representations known to us of American
natives engaged in cultivating and curing tobacco, of
curious pipes, and of the kalian of Persia.

Nicander.
Theriaca & Alexipharmaca interprete Io. Gorraeo,
scholia.
Parisiis, apud Guil. Morellium, 1557. 3 parts in 1 vol.
4to (216 x 166 mm). [VIII], 223, [1]; 80 (recte 72) p.
With 3 woodcut printer's marks.

-Provenance: in pen on front flyleaf: "G & J Lloyd &Co/ 77 Snow Hill/ London/ 5 Oct [18]'46". John
Lloyd had a tobacco and snuff manufactury, alreadymentioned in 1808.

17thcentury laced case vellum binding. Orange
endbands.
€ 2.600,--Literature: Hirsch IV, 332; Waring II, 709; Ferchl, p.
379; Not in DMB; Cf. Sabin XII, 576 (ed. 1626
Leyden); Arents coll 148 a.

Beautifully printed edition, containing the Greek text
in the Grecs du Roi type, facing the Latin translationof the Parisian pharmacist Jean de Gorris (1507-1577)
in Roman type. His notes and the scholia are at theend of the texts and in the 3 part of this work. They
were first published separately in 1549 and 1556 andhere for the first time published together.

-Condition: Text slightly browned; First 3 leaves
front margins frayed, 2 repairs ans some fragments
lacking; Title some spots; Front cover a bit hollow;
Front joint a bit splitting; Good copy.
~~~~~

Guillaume Morel (active 1549-1564) was a savant
Hellenist and and excellent typographer. In 1555 he
was appointed "imprimeur du roi en lettres
grècques". The printer's mark used in this work isthat of the "imprimeur du roi en lettres grècques".
Nicander of Colophon (185-135 BC) was a Greek
poet, grammarian and physician. He wrote a great18

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number of works of which only 2 toxicological books,
The Theriaca and Alexipharmaca, are preserved. His
Theriaca deals in 958 hexameters with the symptoms
and treatment of poisoning by the bites of poisonous
animals (i.a. asp, viper, spider, scorpion, lizard etc);
the Alexipharmaca considers intoxications throughanimal, vegetable and mineral poisoning and theirsuitable antidotes. In both poems 125 different plants
are quoted ( i.a. opium and mushrooms) and it is thefirst source that mentions lead poisoning. He is also
the first writer to mention the medical use of theleech. In spite of many superstitious statements thiswork had a wide circulation and deserved highappreciation.

Padovani, Giovanni.

-Provenance: 1) Blue round stamp: Dr. E. Friedrich
Rheine on flyleaf and title page. -2) Bookplate of E.
Grendel on flyleaf.

19th century green half morocco with flat gold tooledspine.

Opus de compositione et usu multiformium horologiorum
solarium pro diversis mundi regionibus, idque ubique
locorum tam in superficie plana horizontali, quàm murali
quorsumcumque exposita sit, pertractans. Nuper
brevissimis ac facillimis doctrinis ab eo excogitatis
luculentur traditium, nunc primum in lucem prodit.
Venetiis, Apud Franciscum Franciscium Senensem,
1570. 4to (199 x 144 mm). [VIII], 110, [2] p.
With a large woodcut printer's device and 20 (5 fullpage) woodcuts in the text.

€ 3.900,--Literature:
Garrison&Morton,MedicalBibliography, 2069; Choulant, Handbuch der
Bücherkunde älter Medizin, p. 63-65; Durling, 16th c.
printed books in the Library of Medicine 3341; Pettegree
80650; For the used type: Vervliet, Thepalaeotypography of the French Renaissance II, p. 383ff.;
Lepreux, Gallia Typographica I, p. 413-420.

Scarce first edition of the main work of Padovani.
This manual contains instructions for the
manufacture and laying out of mural (vertical) andhorizontal sundials, contains extensive tables ofdeclinations for various latitudes with both
occidental and oriental examples, and provides
instructions for the calculation of latitudes. The lastsection includes a description of a sundial calibrated
for the measurement of unequal hours, such as thoseused in the ecclesiastic calendar, which foresaw
twelve hours of light and twelve of dark, which was
subject to-Condition: Vellum a bit soiled; corner cut out of
first flyleaf; Names erased on first pastedown, leaving
a hole in the paper else a very fine copy.
~~~~~
Rare first edition of a treatise about
horizontal and mural sundials

severe seasonal variations. A competely rewritten andenlarged edition appeared in 1582.
Giovanni Padovani (ca. 1512-ca. 1590) was an Italianmathematician, astronomer, and musical theorist
from Verona, a student of Pietro Pitati, and theauthor of numerous works relating to time.
-Literature: Edit 16 CNC 27991; Houzeau &Lancaster, Bibliographie générale de l'astronomie, no.
11375 'Rare'; comp. LaLande, Bibliographie
astronomique, p. 114 (ed. 1582 only).
-Condition: Vague waterstain throughout; some
pages small part of running title cut of; lower corners
a bit bumped; a good copy with strong impressionsof the woodcuts.
~~~~~

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Peurbach to replace the 13th c. so-called Theorica
planetarum Gerardi.
It was completed in 1454 and contained sections on
the sun, moon, superior planets, Venus, Mercury,characteristic phenomena and eclipses, theory of latitude, and the motion of the eighth sphere according
to the Alphonsine Tables.

The most important Astronomical textbook for 200
years revised by Apianus

Peurbach later enlarged the work by adding a section
on Thābit ibn Qurra’s theory of trepidation. His pupil
Re-giomontanus brought out the first printed edition
1474.
The Theoricae novae contains very careful anddetailed descriptions of solid sphere representationsof Ptolemaic planetary models that Peurbach based
mostly upon Ibn al-Haytham’s description ofidentical models in his On the Configuration of theworld . Peurbach’s book was of great importancebecause his models remained the canonical physicaldescription of the structure of the heavens until
Tycho Brahe disproved the existence of solid spheres.
Even Copernicus was to a large extent still under
their influence, and the original motivation for his
planetary theory was apparently to correct a numberof physical impossibilities in Peurbach's models
relating to non uniform rotation of solid spheres.
Since the Theoricae novae was intended as anelementary work, much of it is devoted to definitionsof technical terms; along with the Epitome it helped
to establish the technical terminology of astronomy
through the early seventeenth century. The word
“novae” in the title is not meant to refer to acompletely new theory but only to emphasize that
this work is a compilation of the latest contemporary
scientific knowledge.

Peurbach, Georg & Petrus Apianus.
Novae theoricae planetarum. Temporis importunitate &hominum iniuria locis compluribus conspurcatae, a Petro
Apiano Mathematicae rei Ordinario Ingolstadiano iam
ad omnem veritatem redactae, & eruditis figuris
illustratae.
[Impressum:] Venetijs, per Ioan Anto. de Nicolinis de
Sabio. Sumptis & requisitione D. Melchioris Sessae,
1537. Mensis Martij. 8vo (156 x 102 mm). 40 leaves. A-E8.

This Venetian edition of Peurbach's Theoricae novae
was copied from Apian's 1528 edition, printed in
Ingolstadt.
Subsequently, the work went through several further
editions. (1534, 1535, 1537, 1542 etc.) Compared tothe early editions of Peurbach's Theoricae Novae,
Apian's edition included more woodcuts or woodcuts
with additional notations, a specimen of which (theTheoricae linearum of the superior planets) was shownon the title page, just under the announcement thatthe book was illustrated with learned figures (eruditis
figuris). Some errors in the woodcuts in the 1528
edition are also in this Venetian edition of 1537.

With a large woodcut on the title page, 47 quarterand half page astronomical woodcuts in the text, anda large woodcut printer's device of a cat catching amouse on the last page.
Modern limp vellum laced case binding with the useof old parchment.
€ 1.950
Third Venetian printing by de Sessa of Peurbach's(1423-1461) main work.

-Condition: New end leaves; some leaves with small
stains; a very fine copy.
~~~~~

The Theoricae novae Planetarum is till mid 17th c. thebasic textbook of planetary theory. It was written by20

FLORISATUS FINE BOOKSS CIENCE SUMMER 2024
engraving clearly depicts for the first time in detailthe main lymphatic system, both in a separate figure
and in the dissected abdomen and thorax of a dog.
Only a short time later Pecquet's work was
confirmed and extended to cover the whole
lymphatic system by Thomas Bartholin (1652) and theSwedish physician Olof Rudbeck (1653).
Also included is Pecquet's dissertation on thecirculation of blood and chyle. At the end of the work
are supporting letters by the Parisian physicians
Jacques Mentel, Pierre de Mercenne and Adrien
Auzout.

A major breakthrough in the understanding of thelymphatic system-Literature: Heirs of Hippocrates no. *543; Garrison &Morton, Medical bibliography 1095; DSB X 476-478;
Krivatsy, Cat. 17th c. printed books in the Nat. Libr. of
Medicine, 8757; Waller, Bibliotheca Walleriana, 7278;
Norman Coll. II, 1676; Grolier, One Hundred Books
Famous in Medicine, 28A.
-Condition: Wormhole in the upper blank margin,sometimes smaller sometimes a bit larger, but nevertouching the printed text; New upper end leaves ofmatching old paper; 3 old small repairs to the whitemargins; Else a very fine copy of this important work.
~~~~~

Pecquet, Jean.
Experimenta nova anatomica, quibus incognitum
hactenus chyli receptaculum, & ad eo per thoracem inramos usque subclavios vasa lactea deteguntur. Eiusdem
dissertatio anatomica de circulatione sanguinis, et chyli
motu. Accedunt clarissimorum virorum perelegantes ad
authorem epistolae.

First western edition of a ca. 1550 manuscript
Persian Pharmacopoea

Parisiis, apud Sebastianum & Gabrielem Cramoisy,
1651. 4to (197 x 152 mm). [XII], 108 p.
With a woodcut printer's mark on the title page, afull page engraving, showing the thoracic duct and 5
engravings in the text.
Limp vellum binding.
€ 12.500,Rare first edition of Jean Pecquet's (1622-1674)
famous work. While still a medical student in 1647 hemade his (only) major discovery. On dissecting a dog
he found the thoracic duct and the receptaculum
chyli (which was called later cisterna chyli by
Bartholin). He found that the chyle does not go to theliver as was common believe, but was transported by
the lacteal veins (which were discovered by Aselli in1627) to the receptaculum, thence to the thoracic
duct and finally into the left subclavian vein.
Pecquet's discovery clarified for the first time theprocess of absorption in digestion. The copperplate
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FLORISATUS FINE BOOKSS CIENCE SUMMER 2024

Muzaffar Ibn Muhammed al-Husayni & Angelus àSancto Josepho (ed.).

A very rare Regiomontanus almanac,from the library of Georg Kloss

Pharmacopoea Persica ex idiomate Persico in Latinum
conversa. [In Persian type:] Tafasir-i murakkabat-i
qarabadin-i parsi [-i Muzaffar b. Muhammad as - Sifai]
ba-dast-i Angelus Karmelit.] Opus missionariis,
mercatoribus, caeterisque Regionum Orientalium
Lustratoribus, ...; nec non Europaeis nationibus perutile.
Acc. specimen notarum in Pharmacopoeam Persicam; tum
indices duo; alter Pharmaceuticus, compositiones in hoc
opere contentas indigitans; alter pathologicus, remedia ad
singulos morbos ostendens.
Lutetiae Parisiorum [=Paris], Typis Stephani
Michallet, 1681. 8vo (195 x 118 mm). VI, 58, VI, 370,
XXVI (Index), I (errata), I, Blank) p.
With 4 lines of woodcut Persian type on the title anda number of lines & specimen in the text.
Sprinkled calf with gilt spine.
€ 6.900
Very rare first edition. "Based on the "Tibb-i-Shifá'í"
of Muzaffar bin Muhammad al-Husayní al-Shifá'i.
Translator's name in Persian on title page. The
translation has also been attributed to Matthaeus a
Sancto Josepho." (Wellcome).
"Verschwindend wenig produzierte die spätere Zeit
auf dem Gebiete der Arzneiwissenschaft. In Betracht
kommt ein Werk über Arzneimittel, das unter dem
Titel "Toohft ul Moomineen" oder "Tohfat-ul Mowin"
im Jahre 1669, nach eigener Angabe als viertes Werk
in dieser Wissenschaft geschrieben wurde. Schon
1681 wurde es von einem Karmeliter-Mönch Jos. dela Brosse (Frater Angelus) aus Toulouse während
sienes Aufenthalts in Ispahan unter dem Titel"Pharmacopoea Persica" übersetzt. Vier Zeilen [onthe title page] wiederholen persisch, dass Angelus die"Erklärung der zusammengesetzten Arzneimittel
Persiens" übersetzt habe, das sehr seltene Werk
bewegt sich in den ausgetretenen Pfaden griechischarabischer Anschauungen. Die 1110 Vorschriften,sind nach den Krankheiten, gegen die sie helfen
sollen, geordnet. An Arzneiformen findet sich alles,
was die damalige Zeit kannte." (Schelenz).

Regiomontanus, Johannes (= Johannes Müller von
Königsberg).
Kalendarius teütsch Maister Joannis Küngspergers.
(Augstburg, in kostung und verlegung deß ersamen
Hans Millers, Am. Kalende Julij. Der iarzal Cristi
M.D.xviii, 1518). 4to (207 x 150 mm). 71 (of 76) leaves.
[A-F4, G2 (G1 & G2 glued together as intended, G1 w.
woodcut 'Instru-mentum Lune', verso blank; G2'Instrument der Plane-ten stund' & G2 verso'Quadrans horologii Orisontalis'], H2, I-S4,V3 (Lacks
gathering T4 & lacks blank V4).
Title page within a decorative woodcut border, with
119 (of 121) woodcut illustrations in the text (7 (of 9)
half to full page), showing phases of moon and sun,signs of the zodiac, constellations, planets etc. Title
page and calendar part printed in red and black.

-Literature:Wellcome IV, 355; Loudon [ed.],Western Medicine [1997], comp. p. 52; Wilson, 7;
Schelenz, p. 69.

19th century half leather with read and green title
shield.

-Condition: Spine renewed and old leather leadback, part of the tail compartment lacks; Upper freeendleaves removed.
~~~~~€ 2.950,Johannes Regiomontanus (1436-1476), certainly thegreatest astronomer of the 15th century. "[He] was the22

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first publisher of astronomical and mathematical
literature, and he sought to advance the work ofscientists by providing them with texts free of scribal
and typographical errors, unlike the publications
then in circulation. His emphasis on correct texts wasaided by his introduction into Nuremberg printing of
the Latin alphabet and, for writings in the German
language, rounded and simplified letters thatapproached the Latin alphabet in legibility." (DSB)

An extraordinary treatise on the Jewish calendar,
chronology and cabala, combined with a Mennonite
song-book, with contemporary coloured plates.

First published in Latin in 1473 in Nuremberg. The
first German edition dates from 1475, also publishedin Nuremberg and was reprinted in Venice in 1478,
Augspurg 1489, 1496, Zurich 1508, Augspurg 1512,
1513, 1514, 1518 and later.

Robbertsz Le Canu, Robbert.
Korte inleydinge der feesten Israels, twelck rechtetijtkaarten zijn, waer in ghy sien meucht hoe veel groot
jaren die werelt ghestaan heeft, ende hoe veel groot jaren
datse noch staan sal, ende in wat groot jaar datse vergaan
sal.
[Amsterdam, for the author Robbert Robbertsz Le
Canu], 1593. 4to (190 x 140 mm). 47 (of 48) leaves (lastblank leaf M4 not present).
With 7 engraved folding plates depicting the stagesof the earth and 8 woodcut illustrations in the text,
all in fine contemporary hand colouring.

-Provenance: 1) Bookplate of "Georgius Kloß M.D.
Francofurti ad Moenum" on upper pastedown. Georg
Kloß (1787-1854) was a medical doctor in Frankfurt
am Main and a fanatic collector of early prints. His
immense collection of incunabula wassold atauction in 1835 in London; -2) On upper paste down
the ex libris "Fort Hill" of Leonard Baskin (19222000), american sculptor and founder of the Gehenna
Press.

Vellum laced case binding. Title vertical in ink on thespine.
€ 6.900
Extremely rare first edition. This enigmatic work
contains beautiful engraved and hand coloured time
charts, clearly showing Robbertsz' scientific aptitude.
In the book he devises a theory of time reckoning,based on the 'cleynen Dach', 'middelbaer Dach' &'grooten Dach' [a small day = 24 hours, a medium day= a year, and alarge day = 360/365 years]. Based on thescriptures, he offers his scientific system ofchronology. The tables stop in the year 3000, when hepredicts the end of the world. It is an extraordinary
treatise on the Jewish calendar, chronology andcabala, combined with a Mennonite song-book.

-Literature: DSB XI, 348-52; Zinner 1097; Proctor,
10842; Houzeau & Lancaster, Vol. I, p. 1508-1509.
-Condition: Lacks gathering T and last blank leaf V4;
Lacks the two movable parts of the volvelle on leaf
G1; Some stains; Spine a bit rubbed; Althoughincomplete, still a desirable copy of this very rare andearly almanac from the Kloss collection.
~~~~~

Robbert Robbertsz Le Canu (1563-1632) was ateacher, mathematician, principal and owner of anautical school, named "In de vergulde Leyster" in
Amsterdam (1586-1611) and later of one in Hoorn
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(1611-1632). Among his pupils were Cornelis de
Houtman, Gerrit de Veer, Jacob van Heemskerk andJacob van Neck. He was the author of many religious
pamphlets and songs. He was one of the inventors of
the so-called 'Sterrenlied' or 'Starsong', analternative method for recording and memorizingstar data, which were essential for timekeeping andcalculating one's position during the night. Printed
versions of these tables were available, but perhaps
too complicated to be used by the sailors.

The first Portugese textbook on ophthalmology

Further reprints of Le Canu's work followed 100
years later in Franeker: 1693, 1698 ed. and enlarged
by J. Hilarides, 1720, and in 1731 in Amsterdam(based on the Franeker edition of 1720).
-Provenance: With the bookplate of the Parisian art
dealer Vincent van Gogh, engraved by Marius Bauer.
He was the uncle of the painter Vincent van Gogh.
His library was sold in 5 auctions by R.W.P. de Vries,
Amsterdam from May 1912-December 1915.

Santa Anna, Joaquim José de.
Elementos de cirurgia ocular offerecidos a sua Alteza
Real O Senhor D. Joao Principe do Brazil.

-Literature: Valkema Blouw, Typographia Batava, no.
2909 (11 copies); Bierens de Haan, no. 4038;
Hoogendoorn, Bibliography of the Exact Sciences, p.
765; Djoeke van Netten, Koopman in Kennis, p. 14, 6163; Machiels R199; Moes & Burger 528.

Lisboa, Simao Thaddeo Ferreira, 1793. 4to (205 x 145mm). VIII, 279, [1] p.
With woodcut Portugese coat of arms title vignette
and 3 folding plates (plate 1 signed 'Gueiroz Sculp.'
after Silva).

-Condition: Last blank leaf M4 not present; one platetear on folds; some leaves a small water stain; a very
good copy.

Brown mottled sheepskin. Gold tooled spine withfleurons and rolls, 4 raised bands and red title label.
Edges sprinkled red.
€ 2.200
Rare first and only edition, often described as thefirst Portuguese textbook of ophthalmology, thistreatise was not an original work but rather an
acknowledged translation of two standard works on
the eye. In the foreword Santa Anna states that thesections on the anatomy and physiology of the eyewere taken from Deshais-Gendron's treatise Traite
des maladies des yeux, 1770, and those on pathology
and therapy from Plenk's text Doctrina de morbis
oculorum, 1777.
-Literature: Becker Coll. 323; Albert a.o., Source
Book, no. 2006; Hirschberg, 971; Blake, p. 400;
Wellcome V, p. 21.
-Condition: Tail of spine damaged; Back cover some
"epidermure"; Small pinhole wormhole in blanklower margin of 2nd half of the book; Paste downs
som worming; Else a nice copy in general.
~~~~~

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petrologist. Finally, he popularized the very term"geology", which replaced "geognosy" in the 1770's
and 1780's.': The human hair hygrometer [volume 21788 here offered] was first described in"Observations sur la physique", 1788, pp. 24 - 45, 98 107. It appeared separately in Geneva 1788." (DSB)

Invention of the hair hygrometer-Literature: DSB vol. XII, p. 119-123.
-Condition: Spine of vol 1 discoloured; Corners a bit
damaged; A fine copy.
~~~~~
The prove that the retina is the seat of vision

Saussure, Horace Bénédict de.
Essais sur l'Hygrométrie. Ier. Essai. Description d'unnouvel Hygrometre comparable. II. Théorie del'hygrométrie. III. Théorie de l'évaporation. IV.
Application des théories ... météorologie.
-AND 2) IDEM, Défense de l'Hygrometre a cheveu, pourservir de suite aux essais sur l'hygrométrie.
Neufchatel, Geneve & Paris, Samuel Fauche [vol. I],
Barde, Manget & Comp., Buisson, 1783-1788. 2 vols.
XXIV, 367, I (blank); IV 60, II (Table and 'Avis') p.
Vol. I: With woodcut vignettes, engraved head piece, 2engraved plates (1 fold.).; Vol. 2: Wirh engraved
vignette on title, woodcut head piece, 1 engraved
single page plate at the end.
Not uniform 20th century richly gilt red morocco.
€ 1.700,First edition of the 'Essais' and first book edition of
the 'Défense'. "[De Saussure] was strongly influenced
by two naturalists, his uncle Charles Bonnet and thephysician Albrecht von Haller. ... Saussure's
dedicated work was of great importance in thedevelopment of geology, since, among other things, it
providedJames
Huttonwith
fundamental
documentation.

Scheiner, Christoph.

In addition Saussure devised a number of useful
instruments, among them a hair hygrometer thatutilized a degreased human hair to measurehumidity, and he also performed some experimentson the fusion of gra-nites and porphyries that
entitled him to be considered the first experimental

Londini, excudebat J. Flesher, & prostant apud
Cornelium Bee, 1652. 4to (200 x 153 mm). [XII], 254 p.

Oculus; hoc est, fundamentum opticum: In quo ex
accurata oculi anatome, abstrusarum experientiarum
sedula pervestigatione, ex invisis specierum visibilium tam
everso quam erecto situ spectaculis, nec non solidis
rationum momentis, radius visualis eruitur; sua visioni inoculo sedes decernitur; anguli visorii ingenium aperitur.

With ca. 97 woodcut illustrations in the text.

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Modern brown morocco. Spine with 4 raised bands,
gold tooled title and year. In cloth box with morocco
title label.

Schott, Gaspar.
Magia universalis naturae et artis, sive Recondita
naturalium & artificialium rerum scientia. [...] Opus
quadripartitum. Pas I, continet Optica, II. Acoustica, III
Mathematica, IV. Physica.

€ 3.800
One of the most famous and important works in thehistory of optics. Originally published in Innsbruckin 1619, reprinted 1621, this 1652 edition is the only
one of Scheiner's works to be published in England,
the distribution of the printrun in the hands ofFlesher and Bee in London & Morden in Cambridge,
with variant titlepages. Christoph Scheiner (15751650) was a Jesuit astronomer, and a pioneer inphysiological optics. He demonstrated how images
fall on the human retina, noting the change incurvature of the lens during accommodation, anddevised the pin-hole test (“Scheiner’s test”) toillustrate accommodation and refraction.

Herbipoli (=Würzburg), Henricus Pigrin (vol 1), Iobus
Hertz (vol 2,3), sumptibus hearedum Joannis
Godefridi Schönwetteri bibliopol. Francofurtens.,
1657-1659. 4 volumes. 4to (215 x 165 mm). Vol. I: [XL],
538, [XIV] p.; vol. II: [XXVIII], 432, [XVI] p.; vol. III:[XXII], 815, [XVII] p.; vol. IV: [XXXII], 670, [XVIII] p.
With 4 engraved title pages by A. Fröhlich after
Jacobus Ambling, 90 engraved plates (9 folding) andsome typographical musical scores in the text.
Vellum laced case bindings with yapp edges.
Endbands of white and pink silk. Edges sprinkled
black. Handwritten titles on the spines.

-Literature: See Wing S-858; DSB vol. XII, p. 151152; De Backer-Sommervogel, Bibliothèque de laCompagnie de Jésus, vol. VII, 738; cf. Garrison &Morton, no. 1480 (ed. 1619); Krivatsy 10365€ 6.500
Rare first edition. Caspar Schott (1608-1666) was a
Jesuit and pupil and admirer of Athanasius Kircher,with whom he studied philosophy in Würzburg. In
1634 he went to Palermo where he stayed for 20 years
finishing his studies and teaching at the university. In
1652 he joined Kircher in Rome. In 1655 he returned
to Germany, where he started working out themassive amount of annotations of himself andKircher.

-Condition: Without the first blank leaf *1; Title pagea bit browned; First leaves some chips; Small hole inp. 247 touching some letters; Else a very fine copy ina beautiful modern binding.
~~~~~
A treasure of technical inventions by Athanasius
Kircher's best pupil

His main work is the Magia universalis, much admiredby his contemporaries, but in the modern view it

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lacks scientific preciseness. Nevertheless it is a realtreasure of scientific knowledge with many originalideas and especially valuable for the descriptions ofscientific instruments and mechanical technology. He
was in the centre of learning of his days andcorresponded with men as Christiaan Huygens,
Robert Boyle and Guericke.

Experiments with air, vacuum, fluids, thermometers
and a dissertation about the tarantula

Senguerdius, Wolferdus.

The main division of the series is in 4 parts: optics,
acoustics, mathematics and physics. These are again
subdivided, in many sections like musica,
anamorphotica, hydrostatica, aerostatica, telescopia,
pyrotechnics, magnetics but he includes also
divination, physiognomy and chiromancy. Famous arei.a. the depictions of the Tarantella and the "catorgan" with living cats.

Rationis atque experientiae connubium, continens
experimentorum
physicorum,mechanicorum,hydrostaticorum, barometricorum, thermometricorum,aliorumque, compendiosam enarrationem ususqueexpositionem, & ad rationis incudem revocationem. aeris,aliorumque phaenomenorum detectioni, illustrationi atqueexpositioni interventia. Accedit eiusdem Disquisitio deTarantula.

-Literature: Dünnhaupt, 121; VD17 23:000451A; DSB
vol. XII, p. 209-211; Caillet, vol. III, no. 10 003;
Rosenthal, Bibl. Magica, 3047, 6086; Poggendorff, vol.
II, p. 838; De Backer-Sommervogel, vol. VII, 910;
Ferguson, Bibl. Chemica, vol. 2, p. 339-341; Graesse,
Bibl. Magica, p. 113.

Rotterdami, Apud Bernardum Bos, 1715. 8 vo (220 x
145 mm). [XVI], 328 p.
With an engraved printer's mark, an engraved title
page for the Tarantula (p. 278) and 3 folding plates atthe end showing different (vacuum) machines
engraved by Van Blyswijk.

-Condition: Throughout some light to medium
foxing (as usual in all copies); spines medium soiled;some corners small damage; else a fine copy of thisvery rare edition.
~~~~~

Italian "charta rustica" half flexible cardboard
binding with written title shield on the spine. Uncut.
€ 1.250

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Wolferdus Senguerdius, Wolfgang Senkward, (16461727) was professor in philosophy in Leiden. He
improved further the vacuum pump designed by
Guericke and improved by Boyle and extended itwith other tools. He was much expirimenting inphysics i.a. with barometers, thermometers,
hygrometers but also palce and time, stars, meteors,minerals.He was much influenced by Descartes. A
curious treatise is added from p. 281-328, dealing
with Tarantula's.

Half cloth boards.
€ 5.500
First edition of this very rare treatise on the reflexesof the brain. A pioneer work on cerebral reflex
activity.
Sechenov (1829-1905), called the "father of Russian
physiology" by Pavlov, studied in Germany under E.
Weber, du Bois-Reymond, K. Ludwig, Helmholtz andBunsen, among others. In 1862 he went to Paris towork in the laboratory of Claude Bernard, who,
however, did not approve of his research. There hesucceededinexperimentallyprovingthatmechanisms exist in the midbrain and cerebrum that
inhibit the excitation of spinal reflexes. This is how
an important physiological function of the brain was
discovered - central inhibition. This discovery laid
the foundation for the science of the activity of thecentral nervous system.

-Provenance: With the printed ex libris "Bibliothecae
Petri Buonsegni Senis MDCCCII".
-Literature: Van der AA vol 17, p. 614; STCN (4copies).
-Condition: Paper a bit browned; Leaves K1-4 upper
corner torn off without loss of text.
~~~~~-Provenance: Oval anilin stamps: "Grossh.S. Irrenheil-Anstalt Jena"; On lower pastdown stamp"
Aufgenommen für den Katalog der universitätsAnstalten Jena 10.10.34." with cancellandum stamp"Abgeschieden"

A pioneer work on cerebral reflex activity-Literature: DSB 12, p. 270; Plesse/Rux, Biographie
bedeutender Biologen, p. 209; Hirsch-H. V, 382.
-Condition: Very fine copy.
~~~~~
The anatomy of the ear

Setschenow, J. [Sechenov, Ivan Mikhailovich]
Physiologische Studien über die Hemmungsmechanismen
für die Reflexthätigkeit des Rückenmarks im Gehirne desFrosches.
Berlin, A. Hirschwald (gedruckt bei Julius Sittenfeld),
1863. 8vo (199 x 137 mm). [IV], 51, [1 blank] p.
With 3 illustrations in the text.

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in leedemaaten, klaarelijk werden voorgestelt; kragtiglijk,
van de gemeene dwaaling der vervorming, anders
metamorphosis genoemt, gesuyvert: ende beknoptelijk, invier onderscheide orderen van veranderingen, ofte
natuurelijke uytbottingen in leeden, begreepen.

Soemmering, S.T.
Iconologie de l'organe de l'ouie, traduit en Latin Par A.
Rivallié.
Paris, Mme Auger Méquignon / Londres, J.B. Baillière/ Bruxelles, 1828. Nouvelle édition. 8vo textbooklet(205 x 135 mm) VIII, VIII 74 p. and large 4 to atlas
volume (315 x 250 mm).

Utrecht, Meinardus van Dreunen, 1669. [published
November 1669]. Het eerste deel (all appeared). 4to.
(207 x 145 mm). [XXVIII], 168; 48 p. followed by aletterpress folding table with page number 49.

Atlas with 17 lithographed plates by Langlumé after
Blanchard.

With 13 engraved folding plates of different sizes
depicting insects and their states of metamorphosis.

Uniform gold tooled half calf with beautiful marbled
paper covers. On the upper cover of the atlas a red
morocco title label.

Vellum laced case binding with yapp edges.
€ 6.500€ 850

First edition. Jan Swammerdam (1637-1680) studied
medicine in Leiden. From about September 1664,
Swammerdam lived in Paris as the guest of
Melchisedech Thevenot and was an active member ofThevenot's scientific academy, an informal club that
met to watch experiments and dispute over Cartesianideas. In 1667 he got his MD. Besides these medical
studies, Swammerdam pursued a lifelong inquiry
into the nature of lower animals. All he managed to
publish during his lifetime was the Historia
Insectorum generalis, Part I, and a monograph on themayfly, but he left explicit instructions in his will forthe publication of the rest of his entomologicalstudies, and Boerhaave was probably accurately
carrying out Swammerdam's intentions when hepublished the Biblia Naturae in 1737-1738,
integrating the text of the Historia with theunpublished manuscripts.

Second French edition of one of Soemmering's main
works, well known for its accuracy of anatomical
illustration. The first edition appeared in German in
1806. Samuel Thomas von Sömmering (1755-1830)
was a German physician, anatomist, anthropologist,
paleontologist and inventor. His investigations on thebrain and the nervous system, on the sensory organs,on the embryo and its malformations, on the
structure of the lungs, etc., made him one of the mostimportant German anatomists.
-Literature: Comp. Garrison & Morton 1554; Waller
9047; Hirsch vol. V, p. 454.
-Condition: Text and plates foxed, sometimes heavily;
A nicely bound set.
~~~~~

The 1669 Historia was devoted to overthrow the ideaof metamorphosis as a sudden and total change fromone kind of creature into another, comparable to thealchemical transmutation of a base metal into gold.
Swammerdam sought to refute the generalconsensus that 1. insects lack internal anatomy. 2.
they originate by spontaneous generation. 3. they
develop by metamorphosis. He consciously andenergetically set out to destroy this supposed
difference between the epigenetic development ofhigher animals and the metamorphic origin of lower
animals and sought to explain all development
according to one model. Those changes that seemmetamorphic are really no different from theobviously gradual ones, except that they go on
invisibly, under the skin.

Swammerdam's refutation of the concept ofMetamorphosis

Swammerdam, Johannes.
Historia
insectorum
generalis, ofte Algemeene
verhandeling van de bloedeloose dierkens. Waar in, dewaaragtige gronden van haare langsaame aangroeingen
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Swammerdam proposed that all the various modes of
insect development fall into one of four groups. He
emphasized the structure of his insect research by
appending to the Historia a letterpress table on page49, designed to show that insects develop in
essentially the same fashion as do all other living
beings. This table presents insects from each of hisorders of development, the louse for the first order,
the dragonfly for the second, the ant and the moth
for the nymph and chrysalis types of the third order,
and the dung fly for the fourth order. Five stages ofdevelopment from egg to adult are numbered, andthe numbers correspond to the figures on the tables.

Sydenham, Thomas.

-Literature: DSB vol. XIII, p. 168-175; Casey &Wood, p. 589; Nordenskiold, p. 167-171; Jorink, E.
'Swammerdam, hoveling? Enige kanttekeningen bij dereputatie van een wetenschappelijk onderzoeker', in:Studium, 8 (4), p. 173-197; Osler, 963; Cole, p. 278-285;
Nissen, ZBI, no. 4059

-And 3): Harvey, William. Ars curandi morbos
expectatione; item de vanitatibus, dolis & mendaciis
medicorum.

-Condition: Folding table lacks portion in lower
margin with loss of some text; Half title a bit soiled
and some chips; Later upper pastedown; Plates a bitbrowned; Binding decently cleaned; 7 plates small
old repairs on the folds; Nice and rare complete copyof the first edition.
~~~~~

With an engraved frontispiece.

Methodus curandi
superstructa.

febres,propriis

observationibus

Londini, impensis J. Crook, 1666. 8vo (160 x 98 mm)[XVI], 156, [2] p.
-Bound up with 2) Lommius Buranus, Jodocus. De
curandis febribus continuis, liber.
Rotterodami, apud Joannen Danielem Beman, 1720.
8vo. [XX], 136, [2] p.

Amstelodami, juxta exemplar Londinense, 1695. 12mo.
[VI], 302 p.

Vellum laced case binding. Titles in ink on the spine.
€ 5.500
Very rare first edition. With the printed dedication tohis associate Robert Boyle on A2recto. As rare andhard to find as the first continental edition (which
was published Amsterdam, van Schagen, 1666)

Extremely rare first English edition of Sydenham

In the later half of the seventeenth century, internal
medicine took an entirely new turn in the work of
one of its greatest figures, Thomas Sydenham (16241689), who revived the Hippocratic methods ofobservation and experience. He was one of theprincipal founders of epidemiology, and his clinicalreputation rests upon firsthand accounts of malarial

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fever, scarlatina, measles, dysentery, and numerous
other diseases. (Heirs of Hippocrates).

quondam viro Bernardino Ramazzino [...] responsiones
jatro-apologeticae.

-Provenance: Ex bibliotheca 'NTvG' [Nederlandsch
Tijdschrift v. Geneeskunde] & placed there from theprivate library of 'Van Rynberk', both provenanceswith bookplates on upper paste down and first free
end leaf, idem a library shelfmark 'NTvG' on upper
paste down; an oval library stamp idem on printed
title of the Sydenham. Withdrawn, deaccessioned,
around early to mid-eighties to 1990.

Mutiane [=Modena], typis Bartholomaei Soliani, 1715.
4to (207x155 mm.) VIII, 191, [1 blank] p.
Brown sheepskin. Spine gilt with "Zwischgold". 5
raised bands and orange title label.
€ 295
A reply to Ramazinni about the misuse of quinine, by
the scholar who promoted quinine against malaria
fever. He coined the word malaria for ths disease.

-Literature: Ad1) cf. Heirs of Hippocrates, item 549(ed. 1676); DSB vol. XIII, p. 213 - 215; Not in Norman
collection; Not in Krivatsy; Not in Osler; Wing STC,
under S6312 ;Ad 2) BMN vil. I, p. 188;
Hirsch/Hübotter, vol. IV, p. 33; Ad 3) Hirsch, vol. III,
p. 73.

-Provenance: Stamp on title page: "F.F.M. Graz"-Literature: Capperoni, 86/8: Ferchl 430; Comp.
Waring I, 340 a.o.pl.; Hirsch V, 613; Comp. G&M.
5231;

-Condition: Title page of Sydenham browned; somespots in the end leaves; els a clean and very fin copy.
~~~~~-Condition: Corners and spine ends damaged; joints
weak; Gold tooling worn away.
~~~~~

About the misuse of quinine

A general introduction to mathematics
Wolff, Christian von.
Der
Anfangs-Grunde
allermathematischen
Wissenschaften. & Kurzer Unterricht von dervornehmsten mathematischen Schriften.
Franckfurt & Leipzig, Rengerischen Buchhandlung,
1750. New enlarged edition. 5 parts in 4 volumes. 8 vo
(181 x 104 mm).
With an author's portrait and 121 folding plates.
Vellum laced case bindings with gold tooled titles at
the heads of the volumes. Edges coloured red.
€ 450
At Halle, Wolff lectured on mathematics and algebra,
building and fortification, as well as experimental andtheoretical physics. A glimpse of the kind of courses
given may be obtained from his popular handbook'Anfangsgründe...' (1710)'.(DSB). Subjects dealt within the 4 volumes are a.o. arithmetic, geometry,
trigonometry, artillery, fortification, mechanics,
hydrostatics,
hydraulics,
optica,perspective,
astronomy, differentials and integrals.

Torti, Franciscus.
Ad criticam dissertationem de abusu chinae chinae
Mutinensibus medicis perperam objecto a clarissimo-Provenance: L.D. Post Bremen 1756 (on flyleaf)
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First edition of Wundt's very rare thesis. Wilhelm
Wundt (1832-1920) became in 1858 assistant ofHelmholtz. He later founded the first laboratory for
expirimental psychology. As aleader in establishing
this discipline he was enormously influential.

-Literature: Poggendorf II, p. 1355/56; DSB XIV, p.
482/4.
-Condition: Strip of ca 2 cm cut of oof the vellum of
the upper cover of vol. 4; A good and sound set withsmall traces of use.
~~~~~

-Literature: Norman Coll. vol. II, no. 2269: Auction
sale Norman [1998] vol. III, 1346 in lot].

First edition of Wundt's very rare dissertation-Condition: Name Wundt on title page underlined in
red pencil; Stamp on title page: "Heidelberg MD
1856"; Bit discolouring of the title page, else a veryfine copy.
~~~~~
The first complete work on the
anatomy of the eye in the world's literature

Wundt, Wilhelm.
Untersuchungen über das Verhalten der Nerven in
entzündeten und degenerirten Organen. InauguralAbhandlung, der Heidelberger medicinischen Facultät.
Mit einer Steindrucktafel.
Heidelberg, Georg Mohr, 1856. 8vo (222 x 134 mm). 28
p.
Zinn, Johann Gottfried.

With 1 lithographed plate showing 12 illustrations.

Descriptio anatomica oculi humani iconibus illustrata.

Sewn, without wrapper, spine overpasted with green
paper strip.

Gottingae, widow B. A. Vandenhoeck, 1755. 4to (235 x
180 mm). [XVI], 272 p.

€ 2.400

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With a woodcut vignette on the title page and 7
folding plates.

moolenmaker van Lexmondt, en in't koper gebragt door
Jan Schenk.

Mottled brown sheep, gold tooled spine with 5 raised
bands and red title label.

Amsterdam, W. Holtrop, en N.T. Gravius, [ca. 1790].
Laatste en beste druk. 2 vols in 1. Large folio (560 x
335 mm). [IV], 11, [1] + plate 1-33; [IV], 15, [1] p +plate
34-56 & Tabula 1-6 & Tabula 1-2.

€ 2.500

With an engraved allegorical title plate and 63
engraved folding plates. (plate 37 & 38 are printed
one one very large folding plate)"Hirschberg and Duke Elder concur that thislandmark work on the anatomy of the eye was THE
FIRST COMPLETE WORK IN THE WORLD'S
LITERATURE ON THIS SUBJECT. Zinn correctly
described and depicted "fibra radiatae" and showedthat a number of fiber bundles in the optic nerve isconstant and continuous with those of the retina.
Zinn, one of Haller's favourite pupils, distinguishedhimself in both anatomy and botany, becoming
professor of medicine and director of the botanicalgardens at Göttingen.
The illustrations in this work, engraved by Joel Paul
Kaltenhofer, mark a new plateau in the graphic
representation of the eye, for it becomes, in themodern sense, recognizable both "in situ" in theorbit and enucleated." (Becker).

Long grained red half morocco. Flat spine. Edges
sprinkled blue.
€ 2.400
Large paper copy on strong paper of the third andlargest edition of this magnificent work. The firstedition appeared in 1734, the second edition in 1761.
Of particular interest are the engraved frontispiece
combined with a laudatory poem on the invention of
the saw-mill by Cornelis Corneliszoon Uytgeest. The
4 lines of poetry in the illustration itself by H.I. Soet,
the other 24 lines unsigned.

"Zinn's masterpiece, and the first complete anatomyof the eye. Written long before it was possible toexamine the interior of the living eye, thedescriptions of the ciliary body, the iris, and theocular blood vessels and nerves are remarkable for
their precision and thoroughness." (Albert).

-Provenance: Bookplate Gerrit Jan Honig Zaandyk
on upper paste down.
-Literature: cf. Bierens de Haan 5482 (edition 1761with the address Petrus Schenk); cf. Brunet IV, 568(first ed. 1734).

-Provenance: Bookplate on upper paste down
"Livres de M.L.P. Duret, medecin a Annonay"-Condition: Spine and board edges rubbed; Hole inupper part half title; else a very fine copy on strong
paper.
~~~~~-Literature: G&M, 1484; Becker Coll. 426; Albert,e.a., Source Book, item 2580; Heirs of Hippocrates,
966; Münchow, p. 329, 464; Hirschberg para 463; Brit.
Opt. Assoc. II, 117; Waller 10493.
-Condition: Upper outer hinge partly cracked and a
fragment missing; Else a very fine copy.
~~~~~
The most extensive book on windmills published in
The Netherlands
From the collection of Gerrit Jan Honig, Zaandyk
Zyl, Johannes van.
Theatrum machinarum universale, of groot algemeenmoolen-boek, behelzende de beschryving en afbeeldingen
van allerhande soorten van moolens derzelver opstallen
en gronden. Getekend door Johannes van Zyl,
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