Search Results: Botany and zoology from Milestones of Science Books

Amsterdam: Johannes van Someren, 1681. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to (260x210 mm), [8] 1-494 [2] pp., engraved title by Jan Luyken, 5 engraved plates and 60 engraved full-page text illustrations, library stamps, contemporary ink notes to front endpapers, waterstaining to upper edge, title page ruled in red, browning and soiling, p.135 with tear to lower margin. Contemporary calf (worn, spine rebacked). ---- Cole, Comparative Anatomy, pp. 150-55; Garrison-Morton 296 ("Blaes anticipated Cowper in finding the Cowper's glands, which he illustrated in his plate of the genitalia and os penis of the rat"); Nissen ZBI 381; NLM/Krivatsy 1339; Norman 241; Wellcome II, p. 179, Heirs of Hippocrates 361. - First edition of the first comparative manual of comparative anatomy based on the original studies of a working anatomist (cf. Haskell F. Norman, 1998, lot 297).

Frankfurt am Main: Matthias Becker for Theodor de Bry, 1609. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Three parts in one volume. Folio (305 x 197 mm). ff. [4], pp. 1-148, ff. 149-160, [4], 161-164, pp. 165-274, [2], including general title dated 1609, 3 section titles on pp. 1, 61 and 225, all dated 1608, pagination of ff. 149-164 single-sided only, with 2 unpaginated leaves between ff. 160 and 161, final blank leaf. General title with engraved device, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, folding letterpress table seamed to fore-edge of p.69, 44 mostly full-page anatomical engravings after Vesalius and Coiter. 18th century three-quarter calf, simple paper boards, some blind ruling, black-dyed edges (joint of upper board split at foot, chipping and worming of spine ends and upper corner of rear board, wear and chipping to extremeties). Text somewhat browned and dust-soiled, some worming to outer blank margins, occasional minor spotting and staining,… Read More

Leiden, 1695. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. [Works, in Latin]. I. Arcana naturae detecta. Leiden: Henrik van Kroonevelt, 1695. [8], 568, [14] pages, including engraved additional title, 27 engraved plates of which 15 are folding and several engraved illustrations in text. Paper only very little browned, very minor spotting, plate to p.548 shaved some mm into the plate mark, ownership signature to title page. II. Arcana naturae, ope & beneficio exquisitissimorum microscopiorum. ... una cum discursu & ulteriori dilucidatione; epistolis suis ad ... philosophorum collegium ... editio altera. Leiden: Cornelius Boutestein, 1696. [12], 3-58 (i.e. 64), 258 (i.e. 260) pp., including etched additional title by Romeyn de Hooghe, 11 engraved plates of which 5 are folding and several engraved illustrations in text. Title page soiled and with ownership inscription. [bound with] III. Continuatio epistolarum... editio altera. Leiden: Cornelius Boutestein,… Read More

Leipzig: Verlag von Wilh. Engelmann, 1844. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo (218 x 131 mm). viii, 242 pp., including half title, 9 lithographed plates. Contemporary cloth-backed marbled paper boards, spine lettered and ruled in gilt (corners bumped and scuffed, extremities rubbed). Text and plates with scattered foxing throughout. Provenance: from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. ---- FIRST EDITION of Schleiden's collected papers published previously and which includes his "Beiträge zur Phytogenesis" beside 13 other articles. "Schleiden . . . taking the embryonic cell as his starting-point proceeded to attempt a reconstruction of the development of the cell. He went seriously astray in this but he insisted on the independence of the cell and presented for the first time the notion that a plant, for example, is a community of cells." (PMM). References: Garrison-Morton 112; cf. PMM 307(a) (both citing Schleiden's Beiträge zur… Read More

München: Ignaz Joseph Lentner, 1812. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo (207 x 122 mm). xxiii [1], 446, [2] pp., 4 folding engraved plates and errata leaf at the end. Bound in contemporary half-calf, boards covered with brown marbled paper, spine with gilt decoration and gilt-lettered morocco label, red-dyed edges, original endpapers (rebacked preserving original spine, boards and board-edges rubbed, corners heavily worn, upper joint with worming). Text and plates with minor browning and occasional minor spotting, first free endpaper clipped at upper corner. Provenance: ?Ungethüm (color lithographed bookplate to front pastedown), shelf-mark paper label to upper board. ---- RARE FIRST EDITION of Gruithuisen's collection of observations and studies in a variety of disciplines, such as philosophy, medicine, optics, astronomy or geology. Baron Franz von Paula Gruithuisen (1774-1852) was a Bavarian physician and astronomer. He taught medical… Read More

Göttingen: Johann Friedrich Röwer, 1802. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 1¾" tall. 1802-1822. Six volumes bound in seven. 8vo (186 x 113 mm). xiv, 477 [1]; iv, 508; iv; 593 [1]; x, 662; vi, 476; iv, 1-169 [3]; vi, 171-579 [1] pp. Vol. V with 4 engraved plates bound at end; vol. VI.1 and VI.2 with 2 folding letterpress tables each, vol. VI.2 with two title pages. Uniformly bound in 20th century half calf over marbled boards, each spine with gilt-lettered red morocco label and gilt ruling, red sprinkled edges, new endpapers. Vol. VI bound in two. Text, plates and tables with just some minor even browning. Provenance: College of Medicine of State Univ. of NYC (ink stamp on final page in each vol.); collection of Roman Vishniac, Russian-American biologist, photographer and pioneer in photomicroscopy. A very good, clean set. ---- FIRST EDITION of this interdisciplinary treatise for naturalists and physicians and one of the main works of romantic natural… Read More

Frankfurt am Main: Christian Egenolph, 1540. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. DORSTEN, Theoderic. Botanicon, continens herbarum, aliorumque simplicium, quorum usus in Medicinis est, descriptiones, & iconas ad vivum Effigiatas; ex praecipuis tam Grecis quàm Latinis Authoribus iam recens concinnatum. Additis etiam, quae Neotericorum observationes & experientiae vel comprobarunt denuo, uel nuper invenerunt. . . Frankfurt: Christian Egenolph, 1540. Folio (302 x 191 mm). [10], 306 leaves. Signatures: *6 **4 A-Z6 a-z6 2A-2E6. Title-page showing three woodcuts of plants, over 300 woodcut illustrations in text, woodcut initials and tailpieces, colophon on f. 306 recto. Large engraved portrait of Georg Marius with text in German, Latin & Greek, pasted to the verso of the title-page. Text with light even browning, occasional minor spotting; title repaired at gutter, little soiled and brown-spotted at margins; f.172, 232-233 with brown staining at margins,… Read More

Leiden: Isaac Severinus, Boudewyn en Pieter van der Aa, 1737. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1737-1738. Two volumes. Folio (360 x 239 mm). [62], 1-85 [2] 86-362, 367-550; [4], 551-910, 124 pp. Two titles in each volume printed in red and black, text in two columns in Dutch and Latin, 53 engraved plates numbered I-LIII bound at end of vol. II, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Uniformly bound in contemporary full calf, each spine with 6 raised bands richly gilt in compartments and with gilt morocco lettering pieces (hinges and spine ends repaired, corners scuffed, boards rubbed and scratched). Text and plates generally crisp and clean with only very little age-toning and minor scattered spotting, small square excerpt of signature at foot of leaf E1 (general index) costing one letter verso. A very good copy printed on strong paper in original binding. ---- Dibner, Heralds of Science 191; Nissen ZBI 4055; Norman 2037 - FIRST EDITION. "This work was published by the… Read More

Amsterdam: Jan Roman de Jonge, 1741. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Folio (393 x 260 mm). [24], 340, [44] pp., including half-title, additional engraved title page (by Jacobus de Later after Jan Goeree), letterpress title printed in red and black and with large engraved vignette, engraved portrait of the blind author (by Jacobus de Later), large engraved head- and tailpieces, woodcut initials, and 60 engraved plates numbered I-LX. Bound in contemporary speckled calf, gilt spine, speckled edges (joints starting, lightly rubbed and with some minor restorations). Text bright and crisp, half-title with vertical crease, occasional minor finger-soiling, very minor occasional spotting. A fine copy. ---- Nissen ZBI 3519; Landwehr VOC 591. SECOND DUTCH EDITION of this magnificient work on marine life of the Moluccas. The beautifully engraved plates display a variety of crustaceans, shells, minerals, gems, corals and fossils found in the waters… Read More

Augsburg: Johann Bämler, 1475. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. 30 October 1475. Folio (285 x 210 mm). 263 (of 294) unnumbered leaves, including two final blanks, but lacking 31 text leaves (f.1-15, 24-26, 34-35, 129-136, 153, 287-288 including entire gatherings b and p). With 9 (of 12) full-page woodcut illustrations, all in original hand-color, each opening the chapters 3 to 5 and 7 to 12 (lacking the first two and that to chapter 6); two- to three-line Lombard initials printed in outline, five- to eight-line hand-colored woodcut Maiblumen-initials opening each chapter. Signatures: [a2 b12 c-i10 k8 l6 m-o10 p-r8 s-z10 A-C10 D-E8 F-G10 H-I8 (-a2, b12, c1, c10, d1-2, d10, e1, p8, s1, I1-2). All leaves uncut with the deckle edges entirely preserved. [Bound with II.] Regimen sanitatis - Das ist von der ordenung der gesuntheyt. Augsburg: Johann Bämler, 13 November 1475. 46 (of 52) leaves (lacking first blank a1, the register a2, text leaves b8,… Read More

Strassburg: Johann Grüninger, 1519. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. 28 August 1519. Folio (305 x 200 mm). 330 leaves, Roman numbering. Black letter in two columns, title with full-page woodcut, 145 woodcut text illustration, of which one double-page, woodcut initials. Signatures: A-Z6; Aa-Zz6; a-i6. Bound in contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over beveled wooden boards, spine with 3 raised bands, brown-dyed edges, later endpapers (old repair of spine ends and joints with vellum, brass clasps and fittings gone, wooden boards wormed and worn). Lower edge in parts uncut. Internally somewhat browned, minor occasional spotting, scattered small, mostly marginal, lampoil- and waterstains (brown staining from lampoil more pronounced towards top corner of final leaves), finger- and dust-soiling, stronger to final leaves, a few occasional short tears, paper flaws, and ink smudges, first 6 leaves including title with paper restoration at fore-margin (most… Read More

Nürnberg & Paris: Keller & Chez la veuve de Chretien de Launoy, 1770. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Large Folio. 3 parts in one volume. Large folio (414 x 258 mm). [8], 76, 48, [8], 24 pp. With a preface by Casmir Christoph Schmidel, 51 hand-colored engraved plates by J.C. Keller (including 10 in the supplement/part III), 3 large engraved head-pieces by J.M. Stock after J.C. Keller after the author, numerous tail-pieces. Bound in morocco backed marbled paper boards, spine ruled and titled in gilt, new endpapers. Text and plates crisp and bright, occasional minor dust soiling to top margin, one plate finger-soiled. Provenance: collection of Roman Vishniac, Russian-American biologist, photographer and pioneer in photomicroscopy. A fine copy. ---- RARE FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH of Baron Wilhelm Friedrich von Gleichen-Russworm's Das neueste aus dem Reiche der Pflanzen (1764). Von Gleichen-Russwurm was a naturalist and musicologist who worked in the service of the Margrave… Read More

Ferrara: Victorius Valdinus, 1600. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1600-1601. Two parts in one volume. Large folio (406 x 268 mm). [56] (of [60]), 191 [1]; 126, [2] pp. Engraved title, engraved portrait of the author, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, 34 full-page anatomical engravings (22 of the vocal organs, 12 of the auditory organs); lacking the bifolium a3-4 with the portrait of the Duke of Parma (a4) and the conjugate text leaf (a3). Signatures: a-b6 (-a3-4) a-c4 d6 A-2A4; A-Q4. Colophon on 2A4v: Ferrariae: excudebat Victorius Baldinus typographus cameralis, 1601, and Q4r: Ferrariae: excudebat Victorius Baldinus typographus cameralis, sumptibus unicorum Patavii, 1600. Contemporary full vellum, spine lettered in manuscript (vellum browned and soiled, tail of spine scuffed, minor wear and chipping to board edges and extremities, corners bumped and worn, upper slightly curved and with pen trials and signatures). Text and engravings crisp and clean, minor pale… Read More

Venice: hires of Octavianus Scotus, 1513. Soft cover. Very Good. Soft cover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Folio (315 x 215 mm). [6], 105 (i.e. 205) [1] leaves. Woodcut initials, colophon and printer's device on final leaf verso. Signatures: aa6, Aa-Zz8, Aaa-Bbb8, Ccc6. Bound without final blank leaf 3C6. Contemporary limp vellum, spine with old, hand-lettered vellum reinforcement (slight chipping and partial splitting of vellum at extremities, vellum somewhat soiled, spotted and wrinkled, straps gone, free endpapers removed). Text quite crisp and clean with only very little age-toning; upper margin of first gatherings brown-stained near gutter, outer margins with occasional minor dampstaining and spotting, c. 40 leaves with wormtrack near upper corner. Provenance: ownership signature on title page, old incription on front pastedown ("Iac. Ant. Tuscul.") ---- FINELY PRINTED VENETIAN POST-INCUNABLE EDITION of "one of the outstanding works of scientific interest written between the time of Pliny and… Read More

G. Cacchi: Vico Equense, 1586. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Folio (325 x 230 mm). [4], 265 (i.e. 272) pp. Title with full-size engraving including a portrait of the author, full-page engraving of dedicatee, 85 engraved illustrations throughout (several repeated, 4 full-page), woodcut historiated initials, head- and tailpieces, some mis-paginations. Signatures: **2 A-Ll4. Contemporary limp vellum with yapp edges, spine lettered in manuscript, original untouched endpapers (binding weak and partially broken with some gatherings working loose, vellum soiled, spotted and darkened). Text little browned, occasional minor spotting and foxing, title slightly dust- and finger soiled, two small dampstains to upper margin of f. A2, ff. C2-3 uncut, somewhat smaller in size, with edge-fraying and tipped to facing pages, clean tear in ff. I1 and L1, binding partially broken, ink annotations in contemporary hand (showing minor ink corrosion in places),… Read More

Milan: Giovanni Battista Bidelli, 1627. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to (245 x 188 mm). [8] (of [14], 79 [1], [8] pp., with the engraved author's portrait by Cesare Bassano, 4-leaf Index bound at end. Lacking the engraved title, two blanks and 3 preliminary leaves a2-5. With 3 (of 4) LARGE FOLDING CHIAROSCURO WOODCUT PLATES (lacking plate I), printed in black, dark red and light red bound at the beginning, woodcut initials and head-piece. All pages untrimmed, dampstaining and light browning throughout, occasional spotting, tear to plate IV without loss, minor fraying of leaf edges. Contemporary wrappers (damaged, front cover wanting). ----- Choulant-Frank, pp. 240-241; Garrison-Morton 1094; Grolier Medicine 26; Heirs of Hippocrates 453; NLM/Krivatsy 446; Norman 76; Osler 1846; Waller 502; Wellcome I:6837. - FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST BOOK WITH ANATOMICAL ILLUSTRATIONS PRINTED IN COLOR. In 1662, during a vivisection performed upon a dog… Read More

Rome: Ex Typographia Angeli Bernabò, 1680. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. De motu animalium. Opus posthumum. 2 volumes. Romae, Ex Typographia Angeli Bernabò, 1680-81. 4to (22.2x15.4cm). Vol. I, 1680: (xii), 376, (12) pp., 14 folding plates; Vol. II, 1681: (iv), 520 pp., 4 folding plates. Woodcut device on titles. The 4 plates in vol. 2 reinforced at outer edge, some foxing and light browning, later vellum with gilt spines. Text block of vol. 1 about 5 mm larger than vol. 2. ---- Horblit 13; Garrison-Morton 762; Dibner 190; Norman 270; Parkinson, Breakthroughs, 1680; Lefanu, Notable medical books, pp. 90-91; Roberts & Trent, Bibliotheca mechanica, pp. 42-43; Fulton, History of physiology, pp. 220-222. - First edition. The foundation work on animal motion. Published in the year of his death, Borelli's treatise presented the application of mechanics to the motion of the limbs of animals based largely on Galileo's mechanics. He began with the center of motion, the muscle,… Read More

Florence: Giorgio Marescotti, 1583. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to (220 x 154 mm). [40], 621, [11] pp. Woodcut printer's device on title and at end, woodcut initials, some historiated. Variant title page with "Duce" in 9th line. Contemporary vellum (old remboitage binding), spine hand-lettered, faded blue edges. A few leaves with faint stains or mostly marginal spotting, fore edge with small ink stain affecting a few leaves to the end, title-page with small ink corrosion hole inside signature. Provenance: Savgiano(?) (early signature in ink on title); "B.M." (manuscript note on title); "M no. 2J" (early note in ink on title); Warren H. Corning, Library of the Holden Arboretum (bookplate to front pastedown). Very good copy, collated complete. ---- Dibner 20; PMM 97; Sparrow 34; Norman 432; Pritzel 1640; Adams C-20; BM/STC Italian p. 134; Cleveland Collections 122, Holden Arboretum Copy 2 (this copy). - THE VERY RARE FIRST EDITION OF "THE FIRST TRUE TEXTBOOK OF… Read More

Antwerp: Christoph Plantin, 1571. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to (235 x 159 mm). [20], 332, [10] pp. Woodcut device on title, large floral and historiated woodcut initials, several woodcut illustrations in text. Signatures: *8 **2 A-X8 Y4. Including the final blank Y4. Contemporary limp vellum, yapp edges, flat spine and lower edge lettered in ink (vellum somewhat shrinked and wrinkled, spine dust-soiled and bumped at top, lower capital band frayed, inner upper hinge split). Text somewhat browned, some gatherings stronger, gathering B with light dampstain at lower blank margin, paper flaw to blank fore-margin of leaf G6. Provenance: Dr. Aldo Frugoni (small ink stamp on title). Still very good copy in original binding. ---- First Latin translation by the Augsburg physician Hieremius Martius of the French edition of Grévin's "Deux livres des venins" and "Les oeuvres de Nicandre", both published by Plantin in 1568. A treatise on venoms and… Read More

Nürnberg: Fleischmann für den Verfasser, 1746. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Der monatlich-herausgegebenen Insecten-Belustigung, erster (-vierter) Theil. Nürnberg: Fleischmann für den Verfasser, 1746-1761. 4 parts in 4 volumes. 4to (207 x 172 mm). 3 hand-coloured engraved additional titles (as called for in vols. I-III), engraved portrait of the author in vol. IV, and a total of 357 hand-coloured engraved plates with Roman numbering on 286 sheets (of which 4 folding), woodcut initials and tailpieces. [With vol. V:] KLEEMANN, Christian Friedrich Carl. [Der beyträge zur Natur-oder Insecten-Geschichte erster Theil, erste Tabelle [-vier und vierstigste Tabelle] ...]. [Nuremburg]: [1776]. Issue with drop title only. 376 pp., 44 hand-colored engraved plates. Bound in uniform 20th century half tan morocco and marbled paper over boards, each spine with 5 raised bands gilt-lettered and blind-tooled in compartments, marbled edges, new endpapers.… Read More