BEUDANT, François Sulpice.

Traité élémentaire de minéralogie. ... Deuxième edition.Paris, Verdière (back of half-title: Hippolyte Tilliard; volume 2: Paul Renouard), 1830-1832. 2 volumes. 8vo. With 24 folding engraved plates, some coloured by hand, and several letterpress folding tables. Contemporary half sheepskin.

XVI, 752; 797, [1 blank] pp.Second edition of a monograph on mineralogy by the eminent French mineralogist and geologist François Sulpice Beudant (1787-1850). "This much expanded and improved edition reflects the tremendous strides mineralogy and chemistry made during the first part of the 19th century... this was the leading textbook in mineralogical science in France for many years" (Schuh). It starts with a brief introduction on the distinction between mineralogy and geology, followed by chapters on the different forms of minerals, how they arise, their chemical composition, classification, usage etc. The second volume deals with the different mineral families and their precious stones. "Mineralogical investigations, particularly experiments with carbonates and other salts, revealed to Beudant a principle of the combination of mineral substances that he expressed in Beudant's law. Essentially, he found that some compounds dissolved in the same solution would precipitate together, forming a crystal whose properties they determined in common. The interfacial angles of this new crystal would have a value intermediate between the angles of the original compounds, proportional to the quantity of each" (DSB).Slightly browned and foxed throughout. Bindings rubbed along the extremities. Overall in good condition.l DSB II, p. 106; Schuh, Beudant 5; not in Sinkankas.

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BEUNAT, Joseph.

Recueil des dessins d’ornaments d’architecture de la manufacture de Joseph Beunat. A Sarrebourg, et a Paris, Rue St. Avoye, no. 63. Contenant tout ce qui rapport a la decoration des apartments …Sarrebourg and Paris, [ca. 1814]. Large 4to (32.5 x 25 cm). Engraved series of 86 prints (including the decorative title-page) with many hundreds of different designs. Contemporary German tree calf, flat spine with contemporary manuscript paper label in ink. With the original publisher’s grey printed wrappers bound in, with the title in German.

An important trade catalogue of furniture ornament and interior decorative designs manufactured by a patented process at Beunat’s factory in Sarrebourg in Alsace. Beunat was the first to manufacture and distribute pre-fabricated moulded elements of ornamentation. His designs were in the French Empire style, pioneered by the architectural duo Percier and Fontaine. Beunat’s trade catalogue shows about 800 decorative designs for friezes, panel ornaments, pilasters, columns, mouldings, candelabras, vases, heads, mythological figures and motives, rosettes, frames for pictures and mirrors, doorways, etc. There are also a handful of designs of entire rooms together with floor plans. The designs were offered in plasterwork as stucco decorations for interiors, but some must also have been offered in bronze as furniture ornament. The plates are finely detailed measured drawings. The present copy demonstrates Beunat’s international ambitions. The plates and title-page are French, while the wrappers give all the necessary information in German. There is a German summary of the designs contained in the catalogue, as well as practical information indicating that the measurements are in French units, with a scale. There is also a reference to Beunat’s "Erfindungs-Patent". We could not locate another copy with the German wrappers. Some of the plates are dated "1812", some "1813", the latest date is "18 December 1813". Plates 83 and 85 have neat manuscript additions in ink. Some of the plates were engraved by Louis Marie Normand, August Montferrand or A. P. Giraud.With the stamp of the Donaueschingen Fürstenberg library on the back of the title-page. In very good condition.l Kat. der Ornamentstichslg. Berlin 1387 (with only 72 plates, dated 1812).

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[BEVERLAND, Adrianus van].

Peccatum originale ... sic nuncupatum, philologice ... elucubratum à Themidis alumno. Vera redit facies, dissimulata perit.“Eleutheropoli” [= Leiden?], “extra plateam obscuram, sine privilegio auctoris, absque ubi & quando.” (colophon: “In horto Hesperidem, typis Adami et Evae terrae filii”, 1678). 8vo. Contemporary sheepskin parchment, with a gold-tooled frame of double fillets on each board.

[10], 146, [4] pp.Rare first edition of a scandalous erotic interpretation of Original Sin. It was an open secret that it came from the pen of the Leiden University student Adrianus van Beverland. Van Beverland claims that the only sin of Adam and Eve was their "conversatio carnalis" and that Original Sin is nothing less than the erotic stimulus present in every human being. Van Beverland tried to prove this with extensive erudite citations from the Bible, Church fathers and Latin and Greek authors. He also alluded to his own unpublished manuscripts devoted to sex and prostitution in classical antiquity. His scholarship was impeccable, but that only increased the outrage of the Dutch Reformed Church authorities. The authorities hoped he would publish an expurgated second edition, but when he instead published an expanded edition, he was arrested. Only the efforts of his influential friends (which included Nicolaus Heinsius and Isaac Vossius) limited the damage to expulsion from the University, a fine, banishment from Holland and supposedly the confiscation of his unpublished manuscripts. In fact he turned over only the first of three "libri" of his most extensive unpublished manuscript and managed to make himself a copy first: ironically his confiscated manuscript survives while he later had to destroy the three volumes he kept. On his banishment Van Beverland fled to England where he lived for years under Vossius's patronage.With a small piece cut out of the title-page (apparently to remove a library stamp), affecting one word in the imprint, minor browning and foxing, but otherwise in good condition. The binding is slightly worn and some of the sewing supports have broken at the hinges, but it remains generally good. The most important published work of an erudite pioneer of erotic scholarship.l NNBW VII, cols. 126-127; R. de Smet, "The realm of Venus ...", Quaerendo XVII (1987), pp. 45-59, at 45; STCN (8 copies).

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[BEVERLEY, Robert].

Histoire de la Virginie, contenant I. L'histoire du premier etablissement dans la Virginie, & de son gouvernement jusques à présent. II. Les productions naturelles & les commoditez du païs, avant que [l]es Anglois y negociassent, & l'améliorassent. III. La religion, les loix, & les coutumes des Indiens naturels, tant dans la guerre, que dans la paix. IV. L'etat présent du païs, tant à l'égard de la police, que de l'amelioration du païs. Par un auteur natif & habitant du païs. Traduite de l'Anglois.Amsterdam, Thomas Lombrail, 1707. 12mo. Full-page engraved frontispiece with the coat of arms of Virginia, title in red & black with Lombrail’s woodcut cypher-monogram TLB, 14 full-page engraved plates, 1 folding printed table, woodcut head- and endpieces, woodcut initials. Contemporary mottled calf, title in gold on spine, marbled endpapers.

[6], 432, [16] pp.First edition of the French translation of an important account of the Virginia colony in America, translated from the first English edition, which was published by R. Parker in London in 1705 with the title History and present state of Virginia. Vigorous, honest, and not without humour, his history was an immediate success. Reprinted numerous times (including modern editions: 1947, 1968, ed. by L.B. Wright), it served to attract many immigrants to Virginia. The work, subdivided in four parts, tells of the history of the first settlement and the government to 1706 (I), the natural productions and conveniences of the land before its settlement by the English (II), the indigenous peoples and their religion, laws and customs in war and peace (III) , and the present state of the country regarding the police and government as well as the improvements to the land.Robert Beverley, jr. (1673-1722) was an important historian of early colonial Virginia. In the first edition Beverley combined shrewd insights into the Virginia of his day, sharp comments about the colony's leaders, and vivid descriptions of the natural world, all written with an engaging enthusiasm for his native land. Many consider his work the most important and accurate history of early life in the Virginia colony. It also gives a favourable account of the slave society that had developed in Virginia by the beginning of the eighteenth century.With contemporary manuscript annotations in ink on first endleaf. Paper slightly browned. A very good copy.l J.F. Bell, B211; Goldsmiths'-Kress libr. 04396; Howes B410; JCB V, 707/18; Sabin 5116; cf. Streeter II, 1098-9 (English eds.).

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[BEVERSEN, Nicolaas Johannes].

[Collection of letters and postcards received by Nicolaas Johannes Beversen].[Various places in Europe, 1886-1931]. 825¾ pages on 550 leaves.

An extensive collection of correspondence by the Dutch classical scholar, translator, book collector and literary critic Nicolaas Johannes Beversen (1860-1932). Berensen received the letters and postcards, written by more than 90 correspondents, over a period of 45 years. Most of his correspondents were writers or artists including Théophile de Bock, P.C. Boutens, Colette, Georges Duhamel, Henri Fantin-Latour, Paul Fort, John Galsworthy, André Gide, Paul Herrmann, Ricarda Huch, Käthe Kollwitz, Melchior Lechter, F. T. Marinetti, Romain Rolland, Annie Salomons, George Bernard Shaw, Stijn Streuvels, Arthur Symons Émile Verhaeren and T.J. Cobden Sanderson (proprietor of the Doves Pres).A contemporary described Beversen, a voracious collector of Dutch, French, English and German literature, as both a quick and thorough reader. He kept himself informed on all new publications, often corresponding with the authors about when their work would appear.The British writer John Galsworthy (1867-1933) wrote Beversen in 1922, stating his thoughts on Charles Dickens: "I safely received the MS. Yes, I’m afraid I do think Dickens - great as he was - was not what I call a poet."In one of three letters, the French writer Colette (1873-1954) wrote about finishing the second part of La naissance du jour (1928) and promised to have the photographer Henri Manuel send Beversen her latest portrait, where "the two cats are magnificent", thereby dating a famous (and undated) photograph.Many other letters discuss lectures and conferences. Ricarda Huch stated in 1912 that she had a firm dislike of lectures that could not be changed. A year later, the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876-1944) regretted that he would not be able to attend a conference in Leiden, as he would be speaking at a Futurist exhibition in Rotterdam.In good condition.l Veth, "Dr. N.J. Beversen" in: Den gulden winckel XXXI, pp. 193-194.

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BEVERWIJCK, Johannes van.

Alle de wercken. Zo in de medicyne als chirurgie.Amsterdam, Jan Jacobsz Schipper, [1656]. 4 works (some with subdivisions) in 1 volume. Large 4to.(27 x 20.5 cm). With a richly engraved illustrated title-page (with general title and undated imprint for the whole collection) drawn by Crispijn van de Passe the younger and engraved by Cornelis van Dalen, and 8 letterpress title-pages for the 4 separate publications (also issued separately), all dated 1656, plus 2 divisional title-pages without imprint. With 55 engravings in the text and 3 full-page engraved human anatomical plates, woodcut tailpieces and woodcut decorated initials. Set in roman type with incidental italic and textura, plus occasional words in Greek. Containing:(1) Schat der gesontheydt.Amsterdam, Jan Jacobsz. Schipper, 1656. In 2 volumes.(2) Schat der ongesontheydt, ofte genees-konste van de sieckten.Amsterdam, (vol. 1 only: Jan Jacobsz. Schipper), 1656. In 2 volumes (title-page of vol. 2, on (i)2r, while (i)1v, the last page of vol. 1, has a catchword pointing to (i)2r). Each of the 3 appendices at the end has its own divisional title, without imprint.(3) Inleydinge tot de Hollandtsche genees-middelen. Ofte Kort bericht, dat elck landt ghenoegh heeft tot onderhoudt van het leven ende de gesondtheydt der inwoonders.[and with its own title-page on C4r and continuing the same series of page numbers:] Steen-stuck. Aenwijsende den oorspronck, teyckenen, ’t voorkomen, en ghenesen van steen en graveel.Amsterdam, Jan Jacobsz. Schipper, 1656.(4) Heel-konste, ofte derde deel van de genees-konste, om de uytwendige gebreken te heelen. Met alderhande historien verlicht, ende met nieuwe curieuse platen verçiert. De platen van de aderen, slagh-aderen, ende zenuwen, &c. die in den voorgaenden druck seer onordentelijck zijn gestelt: midtsgaders de rekeningen die op deselve platen seer sloridgh aengewesen hebben geweest, zijn nu alle op haer bequame ordre gebracht, followed by Vervolgh van de heel-konste, verhandelende wonden, gehardtheydt, oorsponck van bus-poeder, ende geschut, kout-vyer, ontleden, ende gebroke beenderen. Met alderhande historien verlicht.18th-century sprinkled half calf, sewn on 5 supports laced into the boards, sprinkled paper sides, black morocco spine label.

[8], 200; [8], 207, [1 blank]; [4], 124; [2], 46; [6], 154, [8] pp.A collection of classic works on health care, including internal and external medicines, surgery, hygiene and societal matters, all by Johan van Beverwijk (1594-1647), bringing together four works (each with multiple subdivisions) that were also issued separately, all dated 1656. Van Beverwijck originally published them separately, including some small works that were later incorporated into the larger ones, from 1635 to 1645. Although his 1635 Lof der medicine (here incorporated into the Schat der ongesontheydt) had first appeared in Latin as Medicinae encomivm in 1633, Van Beverwijck’s real revolution was to publish in Dutch for the general Dutch public, which had a remarkably high rate of literacy, rather than in Latin for scholars and professional physicians. The addition of verses by the most popular Dutch poet, Jacob Cats, as well as engraved illustrations, made his work more attractive to the public and helped to clarify his ideas, though the illustrations (and the large format of the present edition) also increased the price.The last quire of the entire collection, the bifolium (X)1.2, is duplicated, with one copy quired in the other. Binding rubbed, lower spine damaged and a small hole burnt in one of the title-pages, otherwise in good condition.l Baumann, Johan van Beverwijck in leven en werken geschetst, 21a; J.L. Beijers, Catalogue, Jan. 1959 (Versnel collection), 943; Bibl. Med. Neerl. I, p. 387; Krivatsy 1188; Scheepers I, 561; STCN 090971663 (the four separate works: 090972287, 090972791, 090973429, 090974107); Wellcome II, p. 159; see also: J. Landwehr, De Nederlander uit en thuis, p. 72 ff.

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BEVERWIJCK, Johannes van.

Heel-konste, ofte derde deel van de genees-konste, om de uytwendige gebreken te heelen.Dordrecht, Hendrick van Esch for Pieter Looymans and Maerten de Bot, 1645.With: PLEMPIUS (PLEMP), Fortunatus. Verhandeling der spieren. ...Dordrecht, Hendrick van Esch for Pieter Loymans and Maerten de Bot, 1645.Small 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece, an emblematic engraving in the preliminaries, 5 engravings of herbs and plants, including 3 with views of Granada, Orange and Cairo, 2 anatomical engravings in the text and 11 full-page engraved anatomical plates. Original overlapping vellum, manuscript title on spine, red edges.

[44], 487, [7]; [6], 176 pp.Two interesting and complementary medical works, probably designed to match, bound together in contemporary vellum.Ad 1: First edition of a practical manual of surgery by Jan van Beverwijck, in Latin Beverovicus, (1594-1647). He and Andreas Vesalius were among the few physicians of the Low Countries to enjoy international fame. He had studied at Padova, then the most advanced university for medicine, and became town physician and Lector in Surgery at his native Dordrecht. Of interest in the present work is the discussion of and manner of preparation of a large number of healing plants and fruits, preceding the main work on practical surgery.Ad 2: Second edition of an interesting study of the muscular system by Fortunatus Plempius, or Plemp (1601-1671), a physician at Amsterdam and close friends with the famous professor Tulp. At the end is added: "Geschil of het hayr gezielt is, en waerachtelick gevoedt wort", a disputation about hair, debating whether it is alive and really fed. First published in 1630, the present second edition was probably printed to accompany the first edition of Van Beverwijck book.In good condition.l Ad 1: Krivatsy 1199; Bibl. Med. Neerl., p. 290; not in Norman Library; Waller; Wellcome; ad 2: Krivatsy 9103 (also bound with Van Beverwijck); cf. Bibl. Med. Neerl., p. 87 (1630 ed.).

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BEVERWIJCK, Johan van.

Heel-konste, ofte derde deel van de genees-konste, om de uytwendige gebreken te heelen.Dordrecht, Hendrick van Esch for Pieter Looymans and Maerten de Bot, 1645. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Finely engraved architectural frontispiece, 8 half-page and 11 full-page engravings on integral leaves, 1 with an emblematic image of Fortuna in the preface, 5 illustrating herbs and other plants with botanical details (2 appear in views of Marseille and the city of Orange in Provence, and another includes a view of Cairo at the head) and 13 human anatomical views, including the vascular system and the musculature, woodcut initials.(2) IDEM. Lof der medicine, ofte genees-konste.Dordrecht, [Hendrick van Esch for Jasper Gorrisz., 1644]. 8vo. With Van Esch’s woodcut device on the title-page.Contemporary vellum, early manuscript title on spine, red edges.

[44], 487, [7]; 152 pp.Ad 1: First edition of one of the famous medical works in the vernacular by Jan or Johan van Beverwijck, in Latin Beverovicus, (1594-1647): a most practical manual on surgery, starting with a discourse on the history, value, and necessity of surgery: “Lof de chirurgie; ofte gespreck over de weerdigheyt, oudtheyt, ende nootsakelickheyt van de Heelkunde” ([4], 28 pp.), including a 2-page laudatory poem by Jacob Cats; followed by the first “book”, on the properties and manner of preparation of a large number of healing plants and fruits: “Het eerste boeck. Van de Heel-middelen” (pp. 29-171), and the second “book”, discussing external ailments: “Het tweede boeck. Van de uyt-wendige deelen, ende daer op, ende in komende vlacken, bleynen, puysten, wonden, sweren, ende zeeren” (pp. 173-487).Ad 2: Second edition of the Dutch translation of Van Beverwijck’s Medicinae encomium (first Latin edition: Dordrecht 1633), in praise of medicine, with a laudatory poem by Dr. Willem Nyssen, together with a confutation of the complaint against the necessity of medicine in Montaigne's Essays: “Bergh-val, ofte wederlegginge van Michiel de Montagne, tegens de nootsakelickheyt der genees-konste” (pp. 35-152), dedicated to his colleague Dr. Cornelis van Someren who contributed a laudatory poem. Van Beverwijck was one of the few Dutch physicians enjoying international fame at this time. He introduced William Harvey’s revolutionary ideas on blood circulation, published in 1628, to continental Europe. With an owner's inscription on an endleaf: Ferdinandus Noordbeek (Ootmarsum, ca. 1725?), and the bookplate of Dr. A.C. de Vet. In good condition, with only the hinges slightly loose.l Ad 1: E.D. Baumann, Johan van Beverwijck 20 a; Bibl. Med. Neerl. p. 290; Krivatsy 1199. Ad 2: Baumann 19a (bound with Schat der Ongesontheyt); Bibl. Med. Neerl. p. 1; Krivatsy 1202; cf. Bibl. Walleriana 1013 (1730 French ed.); Wellcome p. 159 (1730 French ed.). Cf. L. van Gemert, “Johan van Beverwijck als 'instituut'”, in: De zeventiende eeuw, 8/1 (1992), pp. 99-106.

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BEVERWIJCK, Johannes van.

Idea medicinae veterum.Leiden, Officina Elzeviriorum, 1637. Title-page in red and black with the Elzeviers' "non solus" tree, grape vine and man device, a woodcut headpiece (plus 1 repeat) and woodcut decorated initials. With: (2) HEER(S), Henrick de. Spadacrene ultimis curis polita: hoc est Fons Spadanus accuratissimè descriptus, acidas bibendi modus Medicamina oxypotis necessaria. Liège, Johannes Ouwerx, 1635. With Ouwerx's woodcut device on the title-page, woodcut headpieces, tailpieces and decorated initials.2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary vellum.

[8], 390, [10]; [24], 128 pp.Ad 1: Rare first and only edition of one of Van Beverwijck's first publications, giving a series of quotations concerning medical matters from non-medical authors from antiquity, writing in Greek and Latin. The text is in Latin, but the Greek sources are quoted in the original Greek. Johan van Beverwijk (1594-1647) studied medicine in Leiden and several other European cities. He earned his doctorate in medicine at the University of Padua. In 1618 he returned to his home town Dordrecht where he became town physician and lector in medicine. His other works include Schat der gesondheyt (1636), Schat der ongesondheyt, ofte geneeskonste van de sieckten (1642) en Heel-konste (1645). They functioned as medical encyclopedias and, since he published in both Latin and Dutch, reached a large and very diverse audience. They made him as famous as his kinsman, Andreas Vesalius.Ad 2: Very rare third edition of a rare work on the therapeutic and medicinal use of the waters of the city of Spa (in Liège province in what is now Belgium), written by Henrick de Heer(s) (1570-1636). First printed in 1614 at Liège by A. de Coswarem, who also printed the second edition of 1622, it led to a violent controversy with Joh. Bart. van Helmont, who attacked De Heer's work in his own work on the same subject (1624; see: Thorndike VII, p. 229). De Heers was born to a patrician family of Tongres in the province of Liège. He was distinguished by his knowledge of philosophy and the mathematics, and travelled in Germany, Spain, Italy, France and England. After taking his medical degree, he settled in Liège as town physician in 1605. He also served as court physician to Ernest Ferdinand, Elector of Cologne. Every year De Heer spent some weeks at Spa, and wrote the present book based on his observations and experiences. At least 7 editions followed to 1689, and a French translation appeared in 1646 (reprinted in 1654 and 1739).Overall in good condition.l Ad 1: BMN p. 1; Krivatsy 1201; Wellcome I, 836; Willems 453; ad 2: De Theux cols. 58 & 122; Ferguson I, p. 372.

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[BEVERWIJCK, Jan van].

Lof der medicine, ofte genees-konste.[Dordrecht, Hendrick van Esch, 1642?]. Small 8vo. With Van Esch's woodcut Maid of Dordrecht device on the title-page, a woodcut tail-piece, a woodcut factotum and 2 woodcut decorative initials. Wrappers (ca. 1800?) made from laid paper coloured green and glazed on the outer surface.

152 pp.Second edition of an interesting medical work by Jan van Beverwijck, in Latin Beverovicus, (1594-1647), a Dutch translation of his Medicinae encomium, Dordrecht, 1633, in praise of medicine, first translated into Dutch for a 1635 folio edition, printed and published by Van Esch. New in the present edition are an introductory verse by the late Willem Nijssen (d. 1637), city physician of Dordrecht and an added a confutation of the complaint against the necessity of medicine in Montaigne's Essays (longer than the “main” work and presented in a sort of dialogue between Beverwijk and Montaigne). Next to Andreas Vesalius, Van Beverwijck was one of the few Dutch physicians enjoying international fame. He had studied at Padova, at the time the most advanced university for medicine, and became town physician and lector in surgery in his native Dordrecht. Pages 35-152 contain Bergh-val ofte wederlegginge van Michiel de Montaigne, tegens de nootsakelickheyt der genees-konste, with a divisional title (without imprint) on C2r and the text dated at the end, Dordrecht, 21 October 1641. The present edition is often bound with the 1642 first edition of Van Beverwijck’s Schat der ongesontheyt, and the STCN suggests that the two were issued together.In good condition. Wrappers tattered, especially the spine, and nearly detached, parts of the sewing loose.l Baumann, Beverwijk, 19a (bound with Schat der ongesontheyt, 1642); Bibl. Med. Neerl. p. 1; Krivatsy 1202 (bound with Schat der ongesontheyt, 1642); STCN 832932388 (4 copies); cf. Waller 1013; Wellcome, p. 159 (both 1730 French ed.).

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BEVERWIJCK, Johan van and Jacob CATS.

Wercken der genees-konste.Amsterdam, (widow of) Jan Jacobsz. Schipper, 1672. 3 volumes bound as 1. 4to. With engraved frontispiece, 28 engravings in volume one, 29 engravings in volume two (including one on the title-page) and 20 engravings (including one on the title-page) plus 1 woodcut in volume three. Contemporary vellum.

[18], 252; [8], 127, [1], 328, 48; [8], “278”[=276], [12] pp.Penultimate edition of the most influential medical work in the Low Countries during the 17th-century, the collected works of Johannes Van Beverwijck (1594-1647). It was very popular, partly through the inserted poems by Jacob Cats and its illustrations. The three main parts contain a general survey of the several elements of medicine, varying from medical folklore and herbal knowledge to anatomy and chirurgy. At the end of the third part "Heel-konste" letters from and to Van Beverwijck as well as some other important letters are issued. Among these are letters of Descartes on the motion of the hart, written ca. 1637-1643, to and from Anna Maria van Schurman (ca. 1640), and William Harvey. Van Beverwijck was a very well-read man and all his writings include many references to ancient and contemporary authors on the subject. With owners' inscriptions on flyleaf and some modern underscoring and annotations in pencil. Front board and spine detached from bookblock, a few tiny wormholes, a couple tears in the foot margin, otherwise in good condition.l BMN I, p. 387; Krivatsy 1191; STCN 840960328; Wellcome II, p. 159.

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BEYEM VAN AERSSEN, Hippolytus.

Eygenschappen der driehoecken met een half en anderhalf rechtenhoeck, waer onder verscheydene voorstellen sijn, die de rechthoeckige ende andere driehoecken betreffen. Met noch een tractaet handelende van vierkantinghe en deelinghe van verscheydene figuyren door circkelboghen besloten.Leeuwarden, Eyvo Taeckes Wielsman (colophon: printed by Schelte Jochems), 1671. 4to. With a woodcut diagram on title-page, numerous woodcut diagrams in text. Contemporary vellum.

[8], 102, [4], 103-117, [3] pp.Geometry textbook by the otherwise unknown author Hippolytus Beyem van Aerssen, printed in Leeuwarden. The volume contains two treatises, the first part deals with triangles and some aspects of rectangles, the second treatise is on geometrical figures within circles as well as some remarks on the squaring of the circle. The final leaf contains errata.Minor ink stain on title-page, page 11 with small holes and some loss of text, diagram on page 62 pasted into text, faint marginal water stain in some parts. Clean and well-preserved copy.l Bierens de Haan 306; for the author: V.d. Aa, Bijvoegsel, p. 16.

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BEYER, Johann Hartmann.

Ein newe und schöne Art der vollkommenen Visierkunst: derengleichen hiebevor niemaln in keiner Spraach gesehen worden ...Frankfurt am Main, printed by Palthenius for Jonas Rosa, 1603. 4to. With numerous tables and several woodcut diagrams and figures in text. Modern overlapping vellum.

[12], 68, 191 [1 blank], [38] pp.First German edition of an important treatise on solid geometry by the Frankfurt physician and mathematician Johann Hartmann Beyer (1563-1625). It includes calculations of exact or approximate volumes of solid figures such as glasses, buckets and barrels (which Beyer treated as 2 truncated cones put together). The author published a work on decimals, Logistica decimalis, and is sometimes (wrongly) credited with the invention of the decimal fraction. He corresponded with Ludolf van Ceulen and Johannes Kepler: the latter refers to Beyer in his Nova stereometria (1615).Owner's inscription on title-page, dated "1625" and partly erased, browned throughout, otherwise in very good condition.l Honeyman 321; Poggendorff I, p. 183; VD 17, 547:658949Q; for the author: NDB II, p. 204.

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[BIANCONI, Giovanni Lodovico].

Lettere al marchese Filippo Hercolani … sopra alcune particolarita della Baveria, ed altri paesi della Germania.Lucca, Giovanni Riccomini, 1763. 8vo. Contemporary Italian marbled paper over flexible paperboards.

XVI, 272 pp.First edition of an interesting look at German artistic and cultural life in Munich and Dresden through the eyes of a cultured Italian. It is written in the form of a series of fictitious letters. Giovanni L. Bianconi (1717-1781) was a scholar and connoisseur who, serving as personal physician to August III of Saxony since 1749, was intimately acquainted with Dresden. He also acted as the King's art agent, taking over that role from Algarotti.Head of spine a little worn but sound. A very fresh and large copy.l Melzi II, 111; Schlosser/Magnino 494; not in Cicognara.

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[BIBLE - DUTCH].

Biblia, dat is de gantsche H. Schrifture, vervattende alle de Canonijcke Boecken des Ouden en des Nieuwen Testaments. Dordrecht, Hendrick, Jacob and Pieter Keur; Amsterdam, Marcus Doornick and Pieter Rotterdam, 1702. Large folio (42.5 x 27 cm). With engraved title-page, 2 letterpress title-pages with woodcut printer's device, 1 half-title, double-page engraved world-map, 5 double-page engraved maps and 1 plan, 51 engraved plates with 6 illustrations each, the latter by Lamberecht Causé and Nicolaas Gommerse. Contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, with brass cornerpieces, clasps and catches.

[20], 302; [2], 134; [12], 164; [2], 66 ll.Keur Bible of 1702 in the States General version, the standard Bible of the Dutch Reformed Church from 1637 onwards. The Bibles printed by Keur were renowned for their accuracy of the text and their fine printing, and are known by the name of the publisher as Keur Bible. According to Poortman & Augusteijn, the maps in our copy belong to a series of plates drawn for the Keur family by Daniël Stoopendaal. With an inscription on flyleaf: "Schenking 'Mevr. de weduwe Chas, Grabal-Willems, Juni 1941, Maastricht". Tear in title-page, the world map and several others throughout, spine damaged, but otherwise in good condition.l Poortman, Bijbel en prent I, pp. 172-176 & 241; Poortman & Augusteijn 29, G II-1.

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