BOSMANS, H.

Collection of about 150 offprints, reviews, obituaries regarding the history of mathematics, cartography, physics. 1900 - 1928.

In 3 vols. in two. Small in 4to. Contemp. half cloth (2 x black, 1 x red). (Ab. 1500 pp.). (Uncut.). (Typewritten index per volume.). A unique collection of 50 offprints and appr. 100 book reviews by this learned Belgium scholar. Mostly presentation copies to G. de Waard, famous Dutch historian of sciences. Biogr. Nationale supplt. II, 182/3 Bosmans (1852 - 1928). Henri Bosmans was born in Malines on 7 April 1852. He entered the Order of the Jesuits in 1871. Bosmans was a productive author whose historical, biographical and bibliographical papers were virtually all published in periodicals. His special interest was the early origin and history of Belgian mathematics, or to be more exact, 16th and 17th century catholic Low countries maths. His research work included scientists as Adrianus Romanus, Henri and Simon Stevin, Jean Stade, Gregoire de Saint-Vincent. His treatment of the life and times of Jesuit mathematicians on missionary work in China deserves special mention: Verbiest, Dorville, Rougemeont, Couplet, Thomas and others. Bosmans contributed many an article to specialist periodicals as "La Bibliotheca Mathematica", les "Annaes da Academia Polytechnia do Porto", 'Archiv für die Geschichte der naturwissenschaften und der Technik", "l'Archivo di Storia della Scienzia", le "Periodico di Mathematiche" (Bologna), "Archives pour l'histoire de la science" and "Isis" among many others.: Smith, Hist. of Maths. II, i.l.c.: The offprints in the 2 vols. here offered include pieces on Snellius, Huygens, Descartes, Pascal, Thomas, Stevin, Tacquet, Girard, van Deventer, Van Langren, Briggs etc.

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Book number: 464

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BOSSCHA, J.

Leerboek der natuurkunde en van hare voornaamste toepassingen.

Leiden, A.W.Sijthoff, 1894. 4to. 4 vols. in 5. W. num. figs. Cl. gilt (Text sl. yellow) Good copy. Famous textbook for University students. He was a.o. editor of the collected works of Huygens.

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Book number: 5123

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BOSSCHA, J.

Verspreide Geschriften ter gelegenheid van zijn verjaardag uitgegeven door zijne vrienden .

Leiden, A.W.Sijthoff, 1903. In 3 vols. 4to. W. 1 portr. 1 pl. 4 tables (2 fold.) and some figs. Mod. hlf. green cl. w. mor. back label. In 1885 he became secretary of the 'Hollandsche Maatschappij van Wetenschappen' (Dutch Society of Science) at Haarlem. He was the editor of Huygens complete works and of the Archives néerlandaises... Charité, Biogr. woordenboek van Nederland I:

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BOSSE, Abr.- DINNER PARTY.- Bosse.- engrs.

Very nice copperengr. by Abraham Bosse of a party of 8, waited on by a small boy. The ladies and gentlemen are enjoying a copious meal, while at the door a beggar is lying on the ground with his crutches next to him. The beggar is chased away by a servant with a drawn sword.

Bosse. No date (appr. 17....). Obl. folio. Very decorative copperengr. by Abraham Bosse, but unsigned. Meas. appr. 25 x 33 cm. No plate marks, Professionally mounted on a sheet of Japan paper. (A small rustspot lower part of the central chair.). With German text below the engr., 5 couplets of 6 lines. Bibl. Nationale, Abraham Bosse, savant graveur, depicting hundreds of Bosse engrs. in the same style and manner. This engraving not depicted. The total engraved work of Bosse runs to appr. 1500 sheets.

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BOSSUET, J.B.

Discours sur l'histoire universelle à Monsieur le Dauphin pour expliquer la suite de la religion et les changemens des empires. Premiere Partie. Depuis le commencement du Monde jusq'a l 'Empire de Charlemagne. Parre Messire Jacques Benigne Bossuet, Evesque de Condom, Conseiller du Roy... premier aumosnier de Madame la Dauphine.

Paris, Chez sebastien Mabre - Cramoisy, Imprimeur du Roy, rue Saint Jacques, aux Cicognes, 1681. sm 8vo. Contemp. full vellum, covers some brown stains and discol. , but very good original quality. Title in ink on spine. [A-T12]. (452, III (index), I (blank) pp.). (Upper inner margin a vague waterst.; second half of the book idem to the righthand side, but more visibly so.). Dutch reimpression. Tchemerzine vol. II, p. 366: 'Il y a une réimpression hollandaise (suivant la copie impr. a Paris), 1681, Petit in -8 de 452 pp. et (2) ff. de table.': Graesse 502: "On recherche fort l'édition de Paris, 1681 in 12mo.": Brunet 1134 lists the [first and only] 4to ed. of 1681 and the [first] 12mo of 1682. Guide to hist. lit. C 44: "This is perhaps the last great literary expression of Christian epic". PMM, item 177: (Paris 1681) 'The 'Treatise on World History' is the last noteworthy exercise in that type of universal history which, beginning with St Augustien (3) interpreted the course of human history as a continuous manifestation of divine providence leading mankind towards salvation. Bossuet was the most famous court preacher of Louis XIV, ... he wrote the Discours for the instruction of the Dauphin, whose tutor he was from 1670 to 1679; ... can still be enjoyed as a noble specimen of classical French prose.': The first part discusses history from Adam to Charlemagne, the second part discusses religion (Judaism and Christianity) and the 3rd part describes the Scythian, Assyrian, Persian and Greek empires. Despite the waterstaining a good copy.

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BOUCHARD, CH.

Leçons sur les auto-intoxications dans les maladies. Rec. et publ. par P. le Gendre.

Paris, 1887. Hlf. mor., b.g. (348 pp.). Garrison 618: '....was the first to call attention to auto-intoxication....'.

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Book number: 4296

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BOUCHUT, E.

De l'état nerveux aigu et chronique ou nervosisme appelé néuropathie aigue cérebro-pneumo-gastrique; diathèse nerveuse; fièvre nerveuse; cachexie nerveuse; néuropathie protéiforme; néurospasmie, et confondu avec les vapeurs, la surexcitabilité nerveuse, l'hystéricisme, l'hystérie, l'Hypocondrie, l'anémie, la gastralgie etc.

Paris, Londres, New York, J.B. Baillière et fils, 1860. 8vo. Modern blue cloth, original green printed upper wr. preserved and bound in. Spine w. red leather titleshield. [n2, n6, 1 - 21 in 8, 22 in 6, X1 - 3 in 8 [Book catalogue]. (IV, XII, 348, 48 (book cat.) pp.). (Occasional light to medium foxing, top inner blank margin up to p. 49 a vague watersp.). G & M 4535: 'First adequate description of neurasthenia.'

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Book number: 1819

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BOUGEANT, [Guil. Hyacinthe].- cartesianism

Amusement Philosophique sur la Langage des Bestes.

A Paris, Chez Gissey, Bordelet, Ganeau, 1739. sm. 8vo. In a very nice 19th c. half clf. binding over marbled brds., spine w. 5 gilttooled 'vase' ornaments. Red tile shield. (II, 157, V (approbation) pp.). (Large paper copy.). (Fine marbled endp.). Barbier, vol. I, p. 156: Sommervogel, dict. des anonymes, p. 29: 'Ce spirituel écrit a eu au moins une dizaine d'éditions et a été traduit en anglais, en italien et en allemand.': Satirical attack on cartesianist / mechanist views regarding animals as machines and their souls. Caused quite a stir at the time and Bougeant found himself imprisoned over it.

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Book number: 6075

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BOUGUER, (P.)

Traité du navire, de sa construction, et de ses mouvemens. ... de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, ci-devant Hydrographe du Roy au Port du Croisic & au Havre de Grace.

Paris, Chez Jombert, Libr. du Roy, 1746. 4to. W. woodc. vignet on title, 3 engr. chapter headings ['Chedel Sculpsit.'], some woodc. head- tail pieces, 12 engr. folding pls. at the end. Contemp. full marbled clf., spine in 6 compartments, elaborately gilt. (Spine ends damaged, upper outer hinge weakening, edges some rubb./dam.). [a4 - e4, A - 4Q4, 4R3].(XL, 682, IV (Errata & Privilege) pp.). (Some marginal annotations in pencil). First edition. DSB II, 343/4: 'The son of Jean Bouguer, royal professor of hydrography, ... was a prodigy who at the age of 15, upon the death of his father, applied for and obtained the professorship. He quickly became the leading French theoretical authority on all things nautical... in 1731 ... he was sent, with C.M.de la Condamine, Louis Godin and Joseph de Jusieu, on the celebrated expedition to Peru that was to measure the arc of the meridian near the equator. ... Apart from the main geodetic program he did an astonishing amount of other scientific work, measuring the dilation of various solids, ... investigating the phenomena of atmospheric refraction and the measurements of heights with the barometer, devising a new type of ship's log ... His work on naval architecture and navigation produced 'Traité du navire (1746) ... .': Biogr. Univ. II, 52: Pogg. I, 254: Darmstädter 188 'Pierre Bouguer veröffentlicht sein Werk "Traité de navire" , welches als die eigentliche Grundlage des theoretischen Schiffbaues anzusehen ist.': Polak, 1050: Cat. NHSM vol. II, 747: Maggs, Bibl. Nautica I, 269: Clean and wide margined copy of Bouguer's classic on the construction of ships. The folding pls., unsigned, depict the structure of the hull (1-3), anchors, windlasses; the ship afloat, principle problems of manouvering, etc.

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Book number: 270

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BOUHOURS, D.- Jesuits.- ST. Ignatius

La Vie de Saint Ignace, fondateur de la Compagnie de Jesus. Suivant la copie de Paris,...

Liege, Chez Guillaume Henry Streel, impr. de son Altesse Serenissime, 1680. small in 8vo. Woodcut vignet [St. Ignatius de Loyola] and woodc. head- and tail pieces. Contemp. full clf., spine gilt. (Outer hinges some rubbing). [a4, A8 - Z8, Aa8 - Hh8]. (VIII, 483, XIII (Index) pp.). (Front inner hinge splitting, but holding firm.). (Small bookticjet 'Ex Libris J.F.Sem'). De Backer & Sommervogel, vol. I, p. 1903: Third edition (First 1679), in part dealing with the East Indies. A very good copy of this 'Life' of Saint Ignace by one of the Societas Jesu's best known disciples and missionaries, Dominique Bouhours. Bouhours was also responsible for the authoritative biography of Franciscus Xaverius, named "The Apostle of the Indies", which was published in Paris in 1682. Encycl. Brit. (11th ed., 1911) vol. 17/18, pp. 80 - 84: Loyola, St Ignatius of (1491 - 1556) founder of the Society of Jesus. Also vol. 15/16 under Jesuits. 'This society may be defined, in its original conception and well-avowed object, as a body of highly trained religious men of various degrees, bound by the three personal vows of pverty, chastity and obedience, together with, in some cases, a special vow to the Pope's service, with the object of labouring for the spiritual good of themselves and their neighbours. ... They are governed and live by constitutions and rules, mostly drawn up by their founder, St Ignatius of Loyola...'.: Following page 483 an extensive index referring a.o. to founding, origin and governing of the S.J., the role of Franciscus Xaverius (pp 124, 204, 209, 325, 424, also his mission to the Indies), Jean Pascal, Nicolas Bobadilla, Robert Bellarmin, etc. A very detailed biography. A nice contemporary binding. Good copy.

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BOUILLAUD, M.J.-

Traité clinique et physiologique de l'encéphalite, ou inflammation du cerveau, ...

Paris, J.B.Baillière, 1825. Contemp. hlf. clf. (outer hinges split, upper cover detached. ). (XXIV, 350 pp.). (foxing throughout, stamp on title.). ('Medical Society Edinburgh'). Hirsch vol. I, p. 650: Garrison-McHenry 355:'...one of the ablest diagnosticians of his time...': Clarke O'Malley, 489/492: Clarke & Jacyna 485: Poynter 150, 152: G & M 1395:'...includes some pathological and clinical studies on loss of articulate speech associated with lesions of the anterior lobes, and gives reasons for the localization of this function in the brain.'

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BOUILLAUD, M.J.

Traité clinique et physiologique de l'encéphalite, ou inflammation du cerveau, ...

Paris, J.B.Baillière, 1825. Very nice original grey-greenish pr. wrs., spine some discol. (XXIV, 350 pp.). (Excellent uncut condition). Hirsch vol. I, p. 650: Garrison-McHenry 355:'...one of the ablest diagnosticians of his time...': Clarke O'Malley, 489/492: Clarke & Jacyna 485: Poynter 150, 152: G & M 1395:'...includes some pathological and clinical studies on loss of articulate speech associated with lesions of the anterior lobes, and gives reasons for the localization of this function in the brain.'

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Book number: 4862

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BOURBON, Aimé.-

Pétition ou mémoire sur un projet de navigation pour l'établissement des transports accélérés de Marseille à Chalons-sur-Saône.

Paris, Decourchant, 1834. 4to. Pr. wr. (36 pp.). W. author's presentation in ink on upper green cover and an enclosed large folio dedicaion letter in calligraphy by the author to the Duke of Orleans. (3 pp.). Annotations in pencil.

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BOTANY.- Bourdinne

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BOURSIER DU COUDRAY, (A.M.) Le

Abrégé de l'art des accouchements, dans lequel on donne les préceptes nécessaires pour le mettre heureusement en pratique, & ...ouvrage très-utile aux jeunes Sages-femmes,...Nouvelle éd....

Paris, Chez Debure, Père, 1777. W. engr. front portr. & 26 pls. printed in colour. Contemp.full marbled clf. (Sp. & corners dam., hinges weak), gilt. On both covers the gilttooled supralibros of King Louis XVI. (XVI, 208 pp.). (Some quires and pp. loosening, title p.some spots.).(Front endp. ex libris Jonkers and Treub). In a mod. hlf.clf. protective box, w.spine label. 4th edition (3rd illustrated thus). Fasbender p. 245, note 4.: discussing Le Boursier's use of a model for gynaecological instruction.: Hirsch I, p. 656/7 ( Bourgeois): ' Zu derselben Familie gehörte Mad. Angelique-Marguerite Boursier du Coudray.': Blake, p.260: Waller 5656: Joseph. Bibl. Comp. p. 382 (Ed. 1785): With a portrait of the authoress and a series of 26 plates printed in colours of the foetus in utero during its development. The pls. engraved and executed by J. Robert together with Gautier Dagoty and Tardieu, pupil of Le Blon, and later on collaborator until Le Blon's death. See Lilien, p. 71 a.o.pl.: Burch, p. 59/61: One of the bookplates on the front end papers of Prof. Treub, (See DMB p. 1996/98:), '...a prolific writer...lectured at national and international congresses...contributed to foreign medical books....': Nina Rattner Gelbart, USA, 1998], 'The King's Midwife, A history and Mystery of Madame du Coudray':

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