287 / 416
287
Superbly illustrated Dutch flora by A. Munting (1626-1683), botanist and professor at the University
of Groningen. He enlarged the botanical garden of his father H. Munting, one of the most extensive
gardens of that period.
Engr. ills
: title by
J. Goeree
(1670-1731), title-vign., 6 head- and 5 tail pcs
and
234
(of 243)
numb. full-page plates, 121 of which in handcol.
(lacking pls 10, 27, 50, 85, 159,
160, 185, 208 and 227, some pls bound in wrong order). These pls by
I. Gole
or
J. Mulder
depict
different plants in landscapes or architectural settings, some with sm. animals. Title in red & black,
text in 2 cols. Some vernacular plant names added in old handwriting. Old ownership entries on
title; 19th c. commemorative inscription on half-title “Dezen boek gewonnen door de dood van
Jacobus Vaen (?) priester in Burght bij Antwerpen (...) 1835 (...)”. In centre of front cover initials
“
L N” in red and black.
Ref.
Nissen 1428. Pritzel 6556. Hunt 396. Bibl. Med. Neerl. I: 506. Krivatsy
8201. Wellcome IV: 198.
1004 [Chemistry]
-
LEMERY, Nicolas
- Cours de chymie contenant la manière de faire les opérations
qui sont en usage dans la médecine, par une méthode facile (...). Nouvelle édition, revue, corrigée
& augmentée (...) par M. Baron. Paris, L.-C. D’Houry, 1757, 4to, cont. calf (corners sl. rubbed), gilt
orn. spine (some def., joints splitting, some repairs), red edges, [6]-xxv-[1]-782-[2 bl.] pp. (some
spotting on margins & pls., sm. tear in p. 73).
€ 120/180
Later ed. (1st 1675) of this widely spread scientifical work by Lemery (1645-1715), augm. by H.T.
Baron (1715-1767). Ill. with an engr. headpiece and
9 folding pl.
(numb. 1-7 + 2 unnumb.) showing
chemical instruments and chemical symbols (2 pl.). Woodcut ornament on title.
Ref.
Wellcome
III:486. Cp. Caillet 6474, Duveen p. 349.
1005 [Engineering - mills]
-
LINPERGH, Pieter
- Architectura mechanica. Moole boek of eenige
opstalle van moolens neffens haare gronden etc., getekend door Pieter Linpergh, moolemaker van
Stocholm nieulyks in plaat-druk uytgegeeven door Iustus Danckerts. Amsterdam, C. Danckertsz,
[not before 1692], folio, cont. blindruled vellum (sl. soiled, some spots), blue edges, [12-2 bl.] pp.,
31 engravings (some clear unobtrusive dampstaining, some tears, corners and margins repaired). In
all a very good copy.
€ 3000/4000
First edition
of a mill-book composed by the Swedish millwright Pehr Linpergh who came to the
Netherlands to study Dutch windmills.
Engr. ills
: nice architectural title, 2 ills in text and 32 numb. ills
on
31 plates
(some double-page) showing various types of mills. Occ. ms notes, as “de Oostindische
zaagmolen staande tot Amsterdam”, “de dubbele oliemolen”, etc. Ownership entry on upper cover
“Willem Klaasz, Raad, Anno 1813”.
Ref.
Bierens de Haan 2751. STCN (2). Not in BL, BnF.
1006 [Engineering - mills]
-
VAN ZYL, Johannes
- Theatrum machinarum universale, of Groot
algemeen moolen-boek, behelzende de beschryving en afbeeldingen van allerhande soorten van
moolens (...) nevens eene naauwkeurige verbeelding in verscheidene platen van de Amsterdamsche
modder-moolens (...) in’t koper gebragt door
Jan Schenk
. I. Deel (all published). Amsterdam, P.
Schenk, [1761], large folio, cont. half calf (traces of wear), spine on 5 raised bands (rubbed, def. at
head & tail), [8]-18-[1-1 bl.] pp. (pp. 13-14 bound after p. 18). Nice uncut large paper copy in its 1st
binding.
Cfr. ill.
€ 1800/2500
New ed. (1st 1734) of this monument of 18th-c. civil engineering in the Netherlands.
Engr. ills
:
title-vign. by J
. Wandelaar
,
front.
showing the invention of the saw mill with a laudatory poem for
C.C. van Uytgeest and
63 double-page plates
(numb. 1-56 (= 55, pl. 37 & 38 on 1 sheet), tabula
I-VI, tab. I-II) showing a wonderful collection of designs for various kinds of mills by J. Schenk
(1698-1752). The publisher P. Schenk in 1737 added as a 2nd part T. van den Horst’s “Theatrum
machinarum universale, of Verzameling van (...) waterwerken”, but this was not reprinted in 1761.
Title in red & black. Bookpl. and ownership entry Vicomte Vilain XIIII.
Ref
. Bierens de Haan 5482.
STCN (6). BnF. Not in BL.
We join
:
Id.
– Theatrum machinarum universale of Groot algemeen moolen-boek (....). Amst.,
P. Schenk, s.d., 4to, cont. red half roan (rubbed), spine on 3 raised bands, 80-4 pp.
Very rare
accompanying publ.
with descriptions of the pls (56 + tables I-VI and II (entitled “Verklaring van
een zy-tweyndery”).
Ref.
Not in STCN.