Science & Technology

BONTEKOE, Cornelis. Fundamenta medica sive de alcali et acidi effectibus per modum fermentionis & effervescentiæ. Acedit ... Pharmocopaea ...
Amsterdam, Cornelis Blankaart, 1688.
With:
(2) BLANKAART, Steven. Praxeos medicæ idea nova.
Amsterdam, Jan Claesz. ten Hoorn, 1685.
(3) VIGANI, Giovanni Francesco. Medulla chymiæ, variis experimentis aucta, multisq; figuris illustrata. ...
"London", [= northern Germany?], "Henry Faithorne & John Kersey" [printer and publisher unknown], 1685.
3 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 1 with a divisional title for the Pharmacopaea, woodcut tailpieces, 1 woodcut decorated initial and decorations built up from cast fleurons. Ad 2 with Ten Hoorn's woodcut JCTH cypher monogram on the title page, the engraved arms of the dedicatee Abraham Johannes Kuffler, 6 engraved illustration plates showing 10 numbered figures, 1 woodcut decorated initial. Ad 3 with 3 numbered engraved folding plates, 1 woodcut decorated initial and a few fleurons. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum, each board with a centrepiece and in each corner a fleur-de-lis, the whole in a frame of double fillets, red sprinkled edges. [8], 228, [11], [1 blank]; [16], 170, [6]; [10], 70 pp. Full description

BOODT, Anselm Boetius de. Gemmarum et lapidum historia, qua non solum ortus, natura, vis & precium, sed etiam modus quo ex iis, olea, salia tincturae, essentiae, arcana & magisteria arte chymica confici possint, ostenditur.
Hanau, Claude de Marne and heirs of Johann Aubry (printed by the heirs of Andreas Wechel), 1609. 4to. With Wechel's elaborate woodcut device on the title-page and the otherwise blank final page, 34 woodcut illustrations in the text (some with multiple figures), and 2 folding letterpress hierarchical tables. Contemporary sheepskin parchment. 8, [8], “288” [= 284], [16] pp. plus 2 folding ll. Full description

BORY DE SAINT VINCENT, Jean Baptiste Geneviève Marcellin and Léon DUFOUR. Voyage souterrain, ou description du Plateau de Saint-Pierre de Maestricht et de ses vastes cryptes, par le colonel Bory de Saint-Vincent; suivi de la relation de nouveaux voyages entrepris dans les Montagnes maudites; par Léon Dufour.
Paris, Ponthieu, 1821. 8vo. With a folding lithographed map of Mount Saint Peter in Maastricht, lithographed by L.A. Paulmier after drawings by the author, and 3 full-page lithographed views. Contemporary gold tooled quarter brown calf. [4], 381, [1 blank] pp. Full description

BOULTEN, F.A. [Manuscript ledger recording the time spent working on infrastructural projects].
[London?,] 1952-1955. Folio. Lined journal, each page ruled for monthly tallies, with some extra annotations. Contemporary cloth. [48] pp. Full description

BOWLES, William. Introduction à l'histoire naturelle et à la géographie physique de l' Espagne; traduit de l'original espagnol de Guillaume Bowles, par le vicomte de Flavigny.
Paris, L. Cellot & Jombert, 1776. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, gold-tooled spine XII, 516 pp. Full description

BRANDLIGT, Laurens. Scylla en Charybdis; behelzende een project, ter verbetering der zeegaten en het vaarwater van Texel, en aanwinning van eenige duizend morgen land.
Amsterdam, Johannes Allart, Laurens Brandligt, 1780. 8vo. With 4 folding engraved maps, and 1 folding engraved plate. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf, with a red morocco title label on the spine, lettered in gold. XIII, [1], 194 pp. Full description

BRETEZ, Louis. La perspective pratique de l'architecture. Contenant par leçons une manière nouvelle, courte et aisée pour représenter en perspective les ordonnances d'architecture & les places fortifiées.
Paris, Charles Antoine Jombert, 1751. Folio. With an engraved frontispiece, and 59 full page engraved plates (52 numbered, 5 unnumbered, 2 with text). Contemporary gold tooled mottled brown calf, red edges, marbled end papers. [2] ll. + 60 plates. Full description

[BRINK, Carel Frederik]. Nouvelle description du Cap de Bonne-Espérance, avec un Journal historique d'un voyage de terre, . . . , dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique. . . . Sous le commandement du Capitain Mr. Henri Hop, . . .
Amsterdam, J.H. Schneider, 1778. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. Title-page with an engraved vignette by Christian Friedrich Fritzsch and 16 folding engraved plates. Olive half calf (ca. 1840), gold-tooled spine. [6], 130, [2], 100 pp. Full description

BROCHANT DE VILLIERS, André-Jean-François-Marie. Die Krystallisation in geometrischer und physikalicher Hinsicht.
Heidelberg, Mohr and Winter, 1820. 8vo. With 16 lithographed plates. Contemporary paste-paper boards. XX, 200, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

BRONGNIART, Alexandre. Traité élémentaire de minéralogie, avec des applications aux arts; ouvrage destiné a l'einseignement dans les lycées nationaux.
Paris, Crapelet; Deterville, 1807. 2 volumes. 8vo. With 16 folding engraved plates. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spines. XII, 564; [4], 443, [1] pp. Full description