SCiENCE AND MEDiCiNE

Lots 85-100

85 (ANATOMY) BAGLIVI, GIORGIO Opera omnia medico-practica, et anatomica. Editio Nona. Antwerp: [Rudigerum,] 1715.

[4], 4, 13-855. 4to, full vellum, title in red and black. Ninth edition, with three leaves of plates, frontispiece portrait, engraved initials, end-pieces and a few intext woodcut illustrations and diagrams. Bookplate tipped in front pastedown and ex-library stamp to f.f.e.p.; intermittent foxing; some light dampstains; even toning to pages. $100-200

86 (ANATOMY) BLANKAART, STEPHEN De Nieuw hervormde anatomie, ofte ontleding des menschen lighaams. Amsterdam: Jan Ten Hoorn, 1696.

8vo, contemporary vellum, pastedown spine label. With engraved title, portrait and 81 (of 84) engraved plates. Lacking plates 50, 51 and 53. $400-600

87 (ANATOMY) CHAUSSIER, FRANCOIS Planches anatomiques a l’usage des jeunes gens qui se destinent a l’etude de la chirurgie, de la medicine, de la peinture et de la sculpture... Paris: Chez C.L.F. Panckoucke, 1823.

Folio, quarter calf over marbled boards. Second edition. With 22 lithograph plates. Rubbing to boards with some loss to corners and spine ends and hinges cracked; library stamps to title page and some text pages; some brownspotting. [Together with:] A System of the Anatomy of the Human Body. Edinburgh: Printed by J. Pillans & Sons, 1814. By Andrew Fyfe. Vol. 1 (of 3) only. Folio, rebacked with 3/4 calf over marbled boards, half title. With 62 engraved plates, including 11 double-page and many hand-colored. Some offsetting from plates; pages toned with intermittent dampstaining and creasing; some dampstaining to boards with corners bumped. $100-200

88 (ANATOMY) HUXLEY, THOMAS HENRY An Elementary Atlas of Comparative Osteology. London: Williams and Norgate, 1864.

Folio, publisher’s gilt-lettered cloth. Illustrated with 12 double-page lithographed plates after B. Waterhouse Hawkins. Ex-library with stamps to plates; rubbing to boards; some dampstaining. $300-500 89

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(ANATOMY) LIZARS, JOHN A System of Anatomical Plates of the Human Body. Edinburgh: W.H. Lizars and others, n.d. [c. 1840]

Atlas volume only, rebound in 3/4 red morocco, renewed endpapers. With 101 hand-colored engraved plates. Some light soiling; a few plates lightly trimmed; otherwise fine. Literature: Wellcome III, 531 $800-1,200

90 (ANATOMY) LORRY, CHARLES Tractatus de morbis cutaneis. Paris: P. Guillelmum Cavelier, 1777.

Folio, contemporary mottled calf, gilt-tooling and gilt-lettered red leather label to spine, marbled endpapers. First edition of the first modern text on the subject of dermatology, with half-title, engraved title page vignette, chapter heading and head-piece. Hinges cracked with bottom two inches of upper board starting; wear to boards with some loss at spine ends and corners; bookplates tipped in front pastedown and f.f.e.p.; library stamp to verso final page and title page; some light brownspotting; book description tipped in final blank leaf. $100-200 91 (ANATOMY) MACLISE, JOSEPH Surgical Anatomy. Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea, 1851.

Folio, full gilt-lettered calf. First edition, with 68 lithograph plates, some hand-colored (one doublepage numbered as two). Boards detached; rubbing to boards; ex-library with bookplate tipped in front pastedown and stamps to plates. $100-200

92 (ANATOMY) MONRO, ALEXANDER The Anatomy of the Human Bones and Nerves: With an Account of the reciprocal Motions of the Heart, and a Description of the Human Lacteal Sac and Duct. Edinburgh: Printed for Messrs. Hamilton and Balfour, 1746.

12mo, rebound in recent full calf, gilt-lettered spine label. Fourth edition, corrected. Dampstaining to some pages; bookplate tipped to front pastedown; manuscript ex-libris to f.f.e.p.; renewed endpapers. Provenance: Gulielmi Langley, 1747, Edinburgh, manuscript exlibris; Robert J. Moses, bookplate. $80-120

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Pictured: Bern and Billie Dibner, Donovan and Ellen ljung with lot 94, presented as a wedding gift by Mr. and Mrs. Dibner to Mr. and Ms. ljung, September 5, 1968, Mamaroneck, New York. 93 (ANATOMY) RUYSCH, FREDERIK Opera omnia anatomico-medico-chirurgica. Amsterdam: JanssonioWaesbergios, n.d. [1773]

36 parts in one. Folio, rebound in library buckram, two title pages in red and black, each volume with individual title page with engraved vignette, lacking frontispiece portraits. 75 engraved plates, some folding. The first 36 parts of the collected edition of Ruysch’s major medical and scientific works, including 16 Epistola, with contents listed in the Tractatum Nominum Abbreviatorum and tracts dated 1720-1737, the first title page dated 1721. Library stamp to verso title page; some manuscript notations and marginalia; left edge title page touched up; renewed endpapers; scattered staining; 2-inch tear to one plate. $800-1,200

94* NEWTON, ISAAC Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. London: Guil. & Joh. Innys, 1726.

Folio, full contemporary calf, gilt-lettered red leather spine label, title printed in red and black, engraved portrait frontispiece of George Vertue after Vanderbank, text diagrams. Third edition, the last published in the author’s lifetime, with his revisions, thereby establishing the definitive text for all subsequent editions. Given as a wedding gift to the present owners by Bern Dibner, noted engineer and collector and founder of Burndy Engineering Company, who donated the remainder of his esteemed collection to the Smithsonian Institute, forming the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology. Bookplates tipped in front pastedown; contemporary manuscript ex-libris to f.f.e.p.; light rubbing to boards; inner hinge lightly strengthened; otherwise in exceptionally fine condition. Property from the Collection of Donovan and Ellen Ljung, Geneva, Illinois Provenance: Bern Dibner, Burndy Library, bookplate; Alexandri H. Burn, bookplate; David Dickson, Edinburg, 1796-7, manuscript ex-libris. $15,000-25,000

95 (MATHEMATICS) GRAVESANDE, WILLEM JACOB Elemens de physique demontrez mathematiquement, et confirmez par des experiences; ou, introduction a la philosophie Newtonienne. Leiden: Chez Jean Arn. Langerak, Jean et Herman Verbeek, 1746.

2 vols. Folio, contemporary worn red cloth over marbled boards, manuscript title labels to spines, uncut. First French edition. With engraved title page vignettes and 116 (of 127) folding plates illustrating many of the new instruments employed by Gravesande and invented by his contemporary, Jan van Musschenbroek. Wear to boards with some loss; spine labels chipped; bookplates and manuscript exlibris to front pastedowns; a manuscript marginalia; some light toning; otherwise fine. $800-1,200

96 (MATHEMATICS) MATHEMATICAL COPY BOOK La Trigonometrie rectiligne et spherique. By M. Ozanman. Paris: Ant. Jombert, 1765.

8vo, full contemporary mottled tree calf, gilt-lettered spine. With nine fold-out tables. The first 220 pages consist of the copy book in manuscript of a student, likely eighteenth-century, comprising notes and diagrams, some hand-colored, including fold-out tables and mathematical computations. $400-600 97* (ENGINEERING) BELIDOR, BERNARD FOREST DE Architecture hydraulique, ou L’Art de conduire, d’elever et de menager les eaux pour les differens besoins de la vie. Paris: Jombert, 1737, 1750, 1770.

Vols. 1, 3 and 4 (of 4) only. 4to, contemporary mottled calf, spines tooled and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers. With two frontispieces and 156 fold-out plates. Wear to boards; ends chipped; joints cracked; hinges starting; foxing; intermittent brownspotting; light dampstaining affecting majority of plates, vols. 1 and 3; light interior soiling all vols.; minor wormholing to some leaves, vol. 1. Property from the Collection of David H. Gee, Chicago, Illinois $600-800

98 (PSYCHOLOGY) HUBBARD, L. RON The Basic Dianetics Picture Book. Los Angeles: Bridge Publications, (1971).

4to, printed paper boards. Revised edition. Signed on the title page. Boards lightly toned; previous owner’s manuscript notation to title page. $200-400 99 (ASTRONOMY) NASA A collection of materials pertaining to the Apollo 10 mission, including an Apollo 10 Mission Report signed by the Apollo 10 astronauts Tom Stafford, John Young and Gene Cernan; Typed letter signed (“Hugh L. Dryden”) deputy administrator of Nasa, 1 page, April 20, 1965; a City Council Meeting program signed by Astronauts John Young and Virgil Grisson, and four photographs signed by the astronauts John Young, Virgil Grisson, Edward H. White, and James A McDivitt. In original NASA mailing envelope. $100-200

100 (ASTRONOMY) PUERBACH, (GEORGE VON) Theoriae novae planetarum. Georgii Purbachii Germani ab Erasmo Reinholdo Salveldensi. Wittenberg: Zacharias Lehman, 1601.

8vo, contemporary vellum. Illustrated throughout with woodcuts, including some fold-out plates [5]. Some soiling to boards; some leaves curled and pages evenly toned. $300-500

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