The American Woods, exhibited by actual specimens and with copious explanatory text - gebrauchtes Buch
1940, ISBN: a58cf8a156d99dfc51aa6a1ed1ff1b1a
Lowville, N.Y., 1898. Volumes I-II only (of 14), 8vo portfolios. Plates and illustrations. 159 samples of wood in 53 card mounts, each wafer thin transverse, radial and tangential sectio… Mehr…
Lowville, N.Y., 1898. Volumes I-II only (of 14), 8vo portfolios. Plates and illustrations. 159 samples of wood in 53 card mounts, each wafer thin transverse, radial and tangential sections illustrating 53 species. Text in original wrappers, samples on card mounts unbound as issued, each text volume and accompanying samples loose within original green cloth covers, the covers in matching original cloth slipcases, with metal catches and bosses to covers, contained in a single modern green cloth box Provenance: Medford, Mass. Public Library (stamps, labels, perforation mark) One of the greatest American works on trees and woods, a labor of love, and of the greatest rarity in complete sets. This remarkable work was the lifetime achievement of Romeyn B. Hough, who devoted himself to the study of American trees, and who is best known for his Handbook of Trees of the Northern States and Canada, long a standard reference work in American dendrology. In this work, Hough sought to describe the woods found in America, with a detailed description in an accompanying pamphlet, and with thin cross-sections of actual woods mounted and labeled in accompanying stiff cardboard mounts. These provide a unique record of American wood types, arranged geographically. Generally each species is shown with wood cut on traverse section, radial section, and tangential section. The samples are so thin as to be easily translucent. The age of these specimens gives them tremendous importance from an ecological standpoint, as well as their great interest to students of American furniture and woodcrafts. The trees available to Hough at the time make such an endeavor impossible to contemplate today. Parts I-IV cover New York and adjacent states, part V covers Florida, parts VI-X describe the Pacific Slope, parts XI-XII cover the Atlantic states, and part XIII southern Florida. Part XIV contained a continuation of the work on the trees of Florida with text by Marjorie Hough, using specimens and notes prepared by her father before his death in 1924. Hough explained the unique nature of the work thus: it is `illustrated by actual specimens, and being in this way an exhibition of nature itself it possesses a peculiar and great interest never found in a press-printed book. The specimens are....about 2 x 5 in. in size, and sufficiently thin to admit of examination in transmitted light...Looked at in reflected light they appear as in the board or log... These specimens are mounted in durable frame-like Bristol-board pages, with black waterproofed surfaces...and each bears printed in gilt-bronze the technical name of the species and its English, German, French and Spanish names. The pages are separable...and are accompanied with a full text...giving information as to the uses and physical properties of the woods, and distributions, habits of growth, botanical characters, habitats, medicinal properties, etc,., of the trees.. The woods used for the specimens are personally collected by the author? and are sectioned and prepared by a process of his own device'. Complete sets of this work are very rare. The volumes were priced at five dollars each, a high price reflecting the work involved in assembling them. Since subscribers came and went over the 25-year period of publication and many only bought the volume or volumes on the areas that interested them. The rarity of complete sets can be judged from the fact that Stafleu and Cowan record the work as being complete in 6 volumes. Stafleu & Cowan TL2 341., 1898, 0, 8vo. Woodcut emblems and diagrams, typographic tables. Modern retrospective black calf; manuscript ownership inscription on the title, scattered manuscript notes. A very nice copy. First edition, a handbook of medical astrology that also attempts to debunk Descartes. Divided into four parts, the text addresses the influence of the stars, common diseases, prognosis, and remedies according to the influence of the stars. He argues that astrological influence on health and disease is just another scientific absolute that will come to be understood as fact, just as his contemporaries had proven the circulation of the blood and the existence of atoms. Fayol asserts that ailments in different parts of the body are affected by different stars, and he goes so far as to say one who is well versed in this knowledge can diagnose illnesses by looking at the night sky without even seeing the afflicted. Moreover, bleeding and purging (Fayol's remedies of choice for most illnesses) should only be undertaken when the stars are favorable. In the third part, he provides an astrological road map for determining the exact date of one's death. Throughout the book, the author denounces Cartesian belief that everything can be explained through mechanics and affective process. OCLC locates 6 copies in America (Harvard, Berkeley, NLM, Chicago, Penn, and Oklahoma); BM, IX: 91 (479); Fajans, Alchemy & Source Books in Chemistry, 50., Jean d'Houry, Laurent Rondet, and Thomas Moette, 1672, 0, London: The New Sydenham Society, 1859-1901. Cloth. Good. 9" by 6". None. A very scarce and important medical collection comprising sixty-one volumes including an index, printed by the New Sydenham Society, with many of the works appearing in the English language for the first time. The New Sydenham Society was active from 1858 until 1907, and followed in the footsteps of the Sydenham Society, who operated from the early 1940s until the late 1850s. Named for the important seventeenth century physician Thomas Sydenham known as the English Hippocrates, their mission was one of antiquarian interest, aiming to publish medical writings and history works.Two works are incomplete and lacking a volume: 'A Clinical Treatise on Diseases of the Liver' and 'Lectures on Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics'.Many volumes are illustrated, including colour plates and folding plates.With all bar one volume in the original cloth; some have been rebacked and numerous repaired.Comprising: I. 'A Treatise on Syphillis in New-Born Children and Infants at the Breast' was written by P. Diday. It was the first work published by the New Sydenham Society, in 1859.II. 'Gooch, on some of the Most Important Diseases peculiar to Women' was published in 1859.III. 'Memoirs on Diptheria, from the writings of Bretonneau, Guersant, Trousseau, Bouchut, Empis and Daviot' was published in 1859.IV. 'A Clinical Treatise on Diseases of the Liver' was written by Friedrich Theodore Friedrichs, and published in 1861. It is incomplete, this being volume II of the work only. It contains two plates and in-text illustrations.V-VIII. 'A Handbook on the practice of Forensic Medicine' is complete in four volumes, written by Johann Ludwig Casper. These were published between 1861 and 1865.IX. 'A Guide to the Qualitative and Quantative Analysis of the Urine' was written by C. Neubauer and J. Vogel and published in 1863. It is illustrated with four plates, as well as in-text illustrations.X. 'On the Anomalies of Accommodation and Refraction of the Eye' was written by F. C. Donders and published in 1864. It is illustrated with diagrams through the text. From the library of a nineteenth century eye doctor.XI. 'Clinical Memoirs on the Diseases of Women' is two volumes bound as one, and the volume is bound in leather. It was written by M. Gustave Bernutz and M. Ernest Goupil.XII-XVI. 'On Disease of the Skin, including the Exanthemata' is complete in five volumes and was written by Ferdinand Hebra.XVII-XXI. 'Lectures on Clinical Medicine' was written by A. Trousseau, and is complete in five volumes.XXII. 'A Collection of the Published Writings of the late Thomas Addison' was published in 1868. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author and eight plates.XXIII-IV. 'A Manual of Pathological Histology to serve as an Introduction to the Study of Morbid Anatomy' was written by Dr. Eduard Rindfleisch. It is complete in two volumes, published in 1872 and 1873. Illustrated with in-text diagrams.XXV-XXVI. 'The Collected Works of Dr. P. M. Latham' is complete in two volumes, published in 1876 and 1879.XXVII-XXXI. 'Smellie's Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery' is complete in three volumes, published between 1876 and 1878. Volume I is illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author.XXXII. 'Lectures on Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics' by Dr. Theodor Billroth was published in 1877. Incomplete; lacking the second volume. Illustrated with in-text diagrams throughout.XXXIII. 'The Medical Digest' by Dr. Richard Neale is a medical sciences bibliography, published in 1877.XXXIV-XXXV. 'Bibliotheca Therapeutica, or Bibliography of Therapeutics' is complete in two volumes, written by Edward John Waring.XXXVI. 'A Handbook of Physical Diagnosis comprising the Throat, Thorax and Abdomen' was written by Dr. Paul Guttman, and translated from the third German edition. Published in 1879. It is illustrated with five plates.XXXVII. 'Investigations into the Etiology of Traumatic Infective Diseases' was written by Dr. Robert Koch and published in 1880. It is illustrated with five plates.XXXVIII. 'Selections from the Works of Abraham Colles' was published in 1881, and is illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author.XXXIX. 'A Treatise on the Diagnosis and Treatment of the Diseases of the Chest' was published in 1882, and written by William Stokes. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author.XL. 'Selections from the Works of the late J. Warburton Begbie' was published in 1882, and is illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author.XLI. 'Lectures on the Localisation of Cerebral and Spinal Diseases' was published in 1883, and written by J. M. Charcot. Illustrated with in-text diagrams throughout.XLII-III. 'Handbook of Geographical and Historical Pathology' is complete in three volumes and was written by Dr. August Hirsch.XLIV. 'Recent Essays by Various Authors on Bacteria in Relation to Disease' was published in 1886 and written by various authors, including Koch, Friedlander and Loeffler. Illustrated with eight plates. An early and important collection on the nature of bacteria.XLV. 'Selected Monographs: Raynaud's Essays on Local Asphyxia, Klebs and Crudeli on the Nature of Malaria, Marchiafava and Celli on the Origin of Melanaemia and Neugebauer on Spondyl-olisthesis' was published in 1888.XLVI-II. 'Lectures on Children's Diseases, a Handbook for Practitioners and Students' was written by Dr. E. Henoch and is complete in two volumes, published in 1889. XLVIII-L. 'Lectures on General Pathology, a Handbook for Practitioners and Students' was written by Julius Conheim and published between 1889 and 1890. Complete in three volumes.LI. 'Microorganisms with special reference to the Etiology of the Infective Diseases' was written by C. Flugge' and published in 1890. With vignette illustrations throughout.LII-III. 'Lectures on Diseases of the Digestive Organs' was written by C. A. Ewald and is complete in two volumes, published in 1891 and 1892.LIV. 'Selected Monographs on Dermatology' was published in 1893 and contains the writings of the likes of Duhring, Berger, Prince-Morrow and Nielsen.LV-I. 'A Collection of the Published Writings of William Withey Gull' was published in 1894, and is complete in two volumes. Volume LV is illustrated with twenty plates, volume LVI with a frontispiece portrait of the author and one plate. LVI contains the memoir and addresses of Gull. Loosely inserted is a newspaper clipping announcing his death.LVI. 'Clinical Lectures on subjects connected with Medicine and Surgery by various German Authors' was published in 1894, and contains three plates.LVII. 'Selected Essays and Monographs' was published in 1897, and includes writings by Kobner, Bruhl, Maxwell and Wallbridge. It is illustrated with six plates in colour, as well as one folding plate.LVIII. 'On Fractures and Dislocations' was published in 1899, and written by Dr. H. Helferich. It is illustrated with sixty-eight plates including two folding plates, as well as in-text illustrations.LIX. 'Selected Essays and Monographs from Foreign Sources' was published in 1900, and contains one folding table and one illustration. With writings from Maschalko, Heidelberg, Ehlers and Fournier amongst others.LX. 'Selected Essays and Monographs' was published in 1901, and contains eight plates and three portraits. With the writings of the likes of Braxton Hicks, Hodgkin, Paget and Ehlers.LXI. 'Restrospective Memoranda' was published in 1911, and comprises an index of all works published between 1859 and 1907. It was compiled by Sir Jonathan Hutchinson, and is complete with a portrait of the author.A very scarce and extremely important collection of varied medical works. In the publisher's original full cloth binding, with one volume bound in half calf. Externally, a trifle worn; the single leather volume is starting to the joints, and the leather is rather rubbed. Volume XIV has been rebacked with a new spine, as has volume LV. All of the Hebra volumes have been repaired with the original spines laid down bar the third as mentioned, as have the Latham volumes and numerous volumes besides. A little more noticeably worn to volume XLI. Library stamps to I, XXV, XXIX, XLI, LV; library bookplates to the front pastedown of volumes XLI, LI; ownership inscriptions to II, X, XLII, and ownership bookplates to III, XXX, XXXII, XXXIV and XXXV. Internally, generally firmly bound. Binding, particularly front hinge, is strained to volume VII, and to volumes XXII and LIII. Pages are generally bright and clean with the odd spot; volume XXIV is a little spotted, as are the early leaves of volume XXXV. Good, The New Sydenham Society, 1859-1901, 2.5, Lowville, N.Y.: published and sections prepared by the author, 1898. Volume I-IV only (of 14). (9 x 6 inches). Illustrations. 312 samples of wood, each wafer-thin transverse, radial and tangential sections illustrating 104 species, window-mounted in 104 card mounts. (Occasional natural cracking and warping to a few samples, perforation stamps to titles of text sections and to first leaf of text in each part). Text in original glazed paper wrappers, samples in card mounts unbound as issued, each text volume and accompanying samples within original green cloth cover in matching original cloth slipcase, with metal catch and bosses to covers Mixed edition. A representative sample of a rare and remarkable work on the woods of America. Volumes I-IV cover all the trees of New York and adjacent states. A contemporary reviewer called it "one of the most marvelous and instructive books ever made" (Art Education). This remarkable work was the lifetime achievement of Romeyn B. Hough, who devoted himself to the study of American trees, and who is best known for his Handbook of Trees of the Northern States and Canada, long a standard reference work in American dendrology. In this work, Hough sought to describe the woods found in America, with a detailed description in an accompanying pamphlet, and with thin cross-sections of actual woods mounted and labeled in accompanying stiff cardboard mounts. These provide a unique record of American wood types, arranged geographically. Generally each species is shown with wood cut on traverse section, radial section, and tangential section. The samples are so thin as to be easily translucent. The age of these specimens gives them tremendous importance from an ecological standpoint, as well as their great interest to students of American furniture and woodcrafts. The trees available to Hough at the time make such an endeavor impossible to contemplate today. Parts I-IV cover New York and adjacent states, part V covers Florida, parts VI-X describe the Pacific Slope, parts XI-XII cover the Atlantic states, and part XIII southern Florida. Part XIV contained a continuation of the work on the trees of Florida with text by Marjorie Hough, using specimens and notes prepared by her father before his death in 1924. Hough explained the unique nature of the work thus: it is `illustrated by actual specimens, and being in this way an exhibition of nature itself it possesses a peculiar and great interest never found in a press-printed book. The specimens are....about 2 x 5 in. in size, and sufficiently thin to admit of examination in transmitted light...Looked at in reflected light they appear as in the board or log... These specimens are mounted in durable frame-like Bristol-board pages, with black waterproofed surfaces...and each bears printed in gilt-bronze the technical name of the species and its English, German, French and Spanish names. The pages are separable...and are accompanied with a full text...giving information as to the uses and physical properties of the woods, and distributions, habits of growth, botanical characters, habitats, medicinal properties, etc,., of the trees.. The woods used for the specimens are personally collected by the author? and are sectioned and prepared by a process of his own device'. Complete sets of this work are very rare since subscribers came and went over the 25-year period of publication and many only bought the volume or volumes on the areas that interested them. The volumes were priced at five dollars each, a high price reflecting the work involved in assembling them. The rarity of complete sets can be judged from the fact that Stafleu and Cowan record the work as being complete in 6 volumes. Cf. BM (NH) II,p.880 (pts.1-8 only); cf. Stafleu & Cowan TL2 II, p.341., published and sections prepared by the author, 1898, 0<
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The American Woods, exhibited by actual specimens and with copious explanatory text - gebrauchtes Buch
2016, ISBN: a58cf8a156d99dfc51aa6a1ed1ff1b1a
Lyon (Lugduni), Apud Antonium Vincentium, 1561. (Colophon at the end: 'Lugduni excudebat Symphorianus Barbierus) 16mo. 854,66 p. Calf 12.5 cm (Ref: Hoffmann 1,586; Graesse 2,400) (Det… Mehr…
Lyon (Lugduni), Apud Antonium Vincentium, 1561. (Colophon at the end: 'Lugduni excudebat Symphorianus Barbierus) 16mo. 854,66 p. Calf 12.5 cm (Ref: Hoffmann 1,586; Graesse 2,400) (Details: Back gilt, and with 4 raised bands, red morocco shield in the second compartment. Endpapers marbled. Edges of the bookblock dyed red. Latin translation only.) (Condition: Binding somewhat scuffed, corners bumped. Waterstain on the title. Paper slightly yellowing) (Note: The 'Antiquitates Romanae' of the Greek rhetor and historian Dionysius Halicarnassensis, who came to Rome ca. 30 B.C. to teach rhetoric, and who spent there at least 22 years or longer, are little known and little read nowadays. His work on literary criticism still is of importance, for it shows that he was an excellent critic with good taste, great knowledge and a subtle judgement. As historian however he is almost forgotten. H.J. Rose's summary of the 'Antiquitates Romanae' explains its weakness: 'He writes as might be expected, in the rhetorical tradition, and as a result his book is nearly worthless as history, devoting much space to elaborate retelling to the late and artificial mythology of Rome. For this very reason, however, it is of some service to students of Roman antiquities, for it preserves a good many interesting facts concerning the earliest civil and religious institutions. We have 11 books left, with excerpts from 9 more, carrrying the narrative down to 271 B.C.' (H.J. Rose, 'A handbook of Greek literature', London 1965, p. 399) The historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus enjoyed great authority until the 18th century. He was thought to be superior to the other Roman historians who wrote about the early history of Rome. His influence on the 'artes historicae' of the Renaissance is great. He was admired by Bodin, Vossius and Scaliger. Then the spirit of the Enlightenment made his poetic conception of history obsolete. Scholars like the Dutch ancient historian Perizonius made mincemeat of him, and burried him in the dust of oblivion. The 'Altertumswissenschaft' of the 19th century held him also in low esteem, and he was degraded to 'Graeculus', an insignificant Greek. The last decades seem to be friendlier for Dionysius. (Bowersock, Gabba). He now has simply become a witness whom scholars start to ask other questions. § The Bohemian classical scholar Sigismund Gelenius, or Zikmund Hrubý, 1497-1554, produced editions of Callimachus, Aristophanes, the Planudean Anthology, Origenes, and the 'editio princeps' of several minor Greek geographers. Circa 1524 he ended up in Basel where he worked as 'lector', translator and critic in the famous Publishing House of Frobenius. (Neue Deutsche Biographie 6 (1964), p. 173) He declined lucrative professorships. In Basel he published in 1549 his Latin translation of the 'Antiquitates Romanae' of Dionysius Halicarnassensis for the first time. It was reissued by Froben in 1555 and 1561. The Lyon printer Sebastianus Gryphus repeated the edition also in 1555, and in 1561 the Lyon printer Antonius Vincentius saw room for yet another edition) (Provenance: On the verso of the front flyleaf in ink: 'Bibliothecae Publicae S(ancti) Vincent, Bisunt, lotte 177'. Bisunt is Bisuntium, the Latin name of the French city Besançon. The French Abbé Jean-Baptiste Boisot, 1638-1694, was a historian and a bibliophile. He was appointed abbot of the Benedict abbey of Saint Vincent in Besançon by King Louis XIV. The abbot left his manuscripts and books to the abbey of Saint Vincent, on condition that the library should be open to the public. (à charge et condition qu'ils mettront le tout dans une salle qui sera ouverte deux fois la semaine à tous ceux qui voudront y entrer ; lesquels pourront y lire et étudier autant de temps qu'ils souhaiteront pendant les deux jours, sans que pourtant il leur soit permis d'en distraire aucun livre). This library forms the kernel of Municipal Library of Besançon. (See for this man, his library and the abbey his lemma in Wikipédia) § On the flyleaf also in a more recent hand: 'ex libris ecure ? Dénans, 1727'. § Still more recent a small ownership label pasted on the verso of the marbled front endpaper: 'Dr. Charles Groffier'. § On the same spot in pencil: 'Brussel 27 sept. 1963', written by the Flemish linguist Walter Couvreur, 1914-1996, who was an Orientalist, and professor of Indoeuropean linguistics at the University of Gent. It indicates the date of aquisition) (Collation: a-z8; A-2L8, 2M4) (Photographs on request), 0, FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Pp. (x) 130 (vi). Roman letter. Woodcut to tp with allegorical figures and instruments. Ornamental head and tail pieces and initials. 14 attractive engraved fold out plates. Early ms to tp, inked over, some show through. Slight age yellowing, a few marginal ink spots, plates in good condition on thick paper, fep and eps a little soiled. A good clean copy in contemp. speckled calf, spine gilt, red morocco label, marbled pastedowns, aer.Handsome first edition of this handbook of military architecture by Nicolas Buchotte, 'ingénieur ordinaire du roi', Louis XV. The work contains fourteen exquisitely engraved plates, mainly large and fold out, that helped to establish graphic standards (rules and maxims) for France's military architects, surveyors and engineers. The work provided a guide to those stationed in colonies and isolated conflict zones to apply practically, clear and basic scientific principles. The plates are demonstrative of contemporary frontier-building that was occurring in France's newly acquired territories. Plate V portrays a floorplan and façade of a barrack structure with an officers' pavilion. It also established a framework, taken up by Henri Gautier de Nîmes and Louis Charles Dupain de Montesson, showing the standardised materials, techniques and colours to be used for maps and plans as well as their spatial organisation. "The implementation of military drawing in France was not only uniquely envisaged as a means of communication and exchange between engineers but also as a tool for valorisation given the rising importance of the professions supported by the founding of the royal academies, including the royal painters, sculptors and architects." (Emilie d'Orgeix, "The Engineer, the Royal Academies, and the Drawing of Maps and Plans in the Earl Modern Period", 2016).The work was originally intended as a manual for Buchotte's two sons. The plates contain a variety of architectural plans, maps of the countryside, abstract portrayals of the correct ground upon which to build military fortifications and guides as to standardised cartographical symbols. He insists on building in harmony with the natural environment, using neutral colours and keeping in tune with surrounding geography. The work was an enormous success and experienced widespread readership and use across Europe well into the nineteenth century."Serve specialmente per gli ombreggiatori, e acquerellatori di mappe, piante e alzati d'ogni genere, e per tutto ciò che riguarda la Topografia, e l'Architettura". (Cicognara)Cicognara 301; This ed. Not in Fowler, not in Brunet., Jombert, 1722, 0, Lowville, N.Y.: by the author, 1910. Volume I-V only (of 14), octavo. (9 x 6 inches). Illustrations. 387 samples of wood, each wafer-thin transverse, radial and tangential sections illustrating 129 species, window-mounted in 129 card mounts. (Occasional natural cracking and warping to a few samples). Text in original wrappers, samples in card mounts unbound as issued, each text volume and accompanying samples within original brown cloth cover in matching original cloth slipcase, with metal catch and bosses to covers. Each contained in a modern brown cloth box with morocco label. Mixed edition. A representative sample of a rare and remarkable work on the woods of America. Volumes I-IV cover all the trees of New York and adjacent states, vol.V is on the trees of Florida. A contemporary reviewer called it "one of the most marvelous and instructive books ever made" (Art Education). This remarkable work was the lifetime achievement of Romeyn B. Hough, who devoted himself to the study of American trees, and who is best known for his Handbook of Trees of the Northern States and Canada, long a standard reference work in American dendrology. In this work, Hough sought to describe the woods found in America, with a detailed description in an accompanying pamphlet, and with thin cross-sections of actual woods mounted and labeled in accompanying stiff cardboard mounts. These provide a unique record of American wood types, arranged geographically. Generally each species is shown with wood cut on traverse section, radial section, and tangential section. The samples are so thin as to be easily translucent. The age of these specimens gives them tremendous importance from an ecological standpoint, as well as their great interest to students of American furniture and woodcrafts. The trees available to Hough at the time make such an endeavor impossible to contemplate today. Parts I-IV cover New York and adjacent states, part V covers Florida, parts VI-X describe the Pacific Slope, parts XI-XII cover the Atlantic states, and part XIII southern Florida. Part XIV contained a continuation of the work on the trees of Florida with text by Marjorie Hough, using specimens and notes prepared by her father before his death in 1924. Hough explained the unique nature of the work thus: it is `illustrated by actual specimens, and being in this way an exhibition of nature itself it possesses a peculiar and great interest never found in a press-printed book. The specimens are....about 2 x 5 in. in size, and sufficiently thin to admit of examination in transmitted light...Looked at in reflected light they appear as in the board or log... These specimens are mounted in durable frame-like Bristol-board pages, with black waterproofed surfaces...and each bears printed in gilt-bronze the technical name of the species and its English, German, French and Spanish names. The pages are separable...and are accompanied with a full text...giving information as to the uses and physical properties of the woods, and distributions, habits of growth, botanical characters, habitats, medicinal properties, etc,., of the trees.. The woods used for the specimens are personally collected by the author... and are sectioned and prepared by a process of his own device'. Complete sets of this work are very rare. The volumes were priced at five dollars each, a high price reflecting the work involved in assembling them. Since subscribers came and went over the 25-year period of publication and many only bought the volume or volumes on the areas that interested them. The rarity of complete sets can be judged from the fact that Stafleu and Cowan record the work as being complete in 6 volumes. Cf. BM (NH) II,p.880 (pts.1-8 only); cf. Stafleu & Cowan TL2 II, p.341., by the author, 1910, 0<
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The American Woods, exhibited by actual specimens and with copious explanatory text - gebrauchtes Buch
1924, ISBN: a58cf8a156d99dfc51aa6a1ed1ff1b1a
Lowville, N.Y.: published and sections prepared by the author, 1898. Volume I-IV only (of 14). (9 x 6 inches). Illustrations. 312 samples of wood, each wafer-thin transverse, radial and … Mehr…
Lowville, N.Y.: published and sections prepared by the author, 1898. Volume I-IV only (of 14). (9 x 6 inches). Illustrations. 312 samples of wood, each wafer-thin transverse, radial and tangential sections illustrating 104 species, window-mounted in 104 card mounts. (Occasional natural cracking and warping to a few samples, perforation stamps to titles of text sections and to first leaf of text in each part). Text in original glazed paper wrappers, samples in card mounts unbound as issued, each text volume and accompanying samples within original green cloth cover in matching original cloth slipcase, with metal catch and bosses to covers Mixed edition. A representative sample of a rare and remarkable work on the woods of America. Volumes I-IV cover all the trees of New York and adjacent states. A contemporary reviewer called it "one of the most marvelous and instructive books ever made" (Art Education). This remarkable work was the lifetime achievement of Romeyn B. Hough, who devoted himself to the study of American trees, and who is best known for his Handbook of Trees of the Northern States and Canada, long a standard reference work in American dendrology. In this work, Hough sought to describe the woods found in America, with a detailed description in an accompanying pamphlet, and with thin cross-sections of actual woods mounted and labeled in accompanying stiff cardboard mounts. These provide a unique record of American wood types, arranged geographically. Generally each species is shown with wood cut on traverse section, radial section, and tangential section. The samples are so thin as to be easily translucent. The age of these specimens gives them tremendous importance from an ecological standpoint, as well as their great interest to students of American furniture and woodcrafts. The trees available to Hough at the time make such an endeavor impossible to contemplate today. Parts I-IV cover New York and adjacent states, part V covers Florida, parts VI-X describe the Pacific Slope, parts XI-XII cover the Atlantic states, and part XIII southern Florida. Part XIV contained a continuation of the work on the trees of Florida with text by Marjorie Hough, using specimens and notes prepared by her father before his death in 1924. Hough explained the unique nature of the work thus: it is `illustrated by actual specimens, and being in this way an exhibition of nature itself it possesses a peculiar and great interest never found in a press-printed book. The specimens are....about 2 x 5 in. in size, and sufficiently thin to admit of examination in transmitted light...Looked at in reflected light they appear as in the board or log... These specimens are mounted in durable frame-like Bristol-board pages, with black waterproofed surfaces...and each bears printed in gilt-bronze the technical name of the species and its English, German, French and Spanish names. The pages are separable...and are accompanied with a full text...giving information as to the uses and physical properties of the woods, and distributions, habits of growth, botanical characters, habitats, medicinal properties, etc,., of the trees.. The woods used for the specimens are personally collected by the author... and are sectioned and prepared by a process of his own device'. Complete sets of this work are very rare since subscribers came and went over the 25-year period of publication and many only bought the volume or volumes on the areas that interested them. The volumes were priced at five dollars each, a high price reflecting the work involved in assembling them. The rarity of complete sets can be judged from the fact that Stafleu and Cowan record the work as being complete in 6 volumes. Cf. BM (NH) II,p.880 (pts.1-8 only); cf. Stafleu & Cowan TL2 II, p.341., published and sections prepared by the author, 1898, 0<
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The American Woods, exhibited by actual specimens and with copious explanatory text - Taschenbuch
1898, ISBN: a58cf8a156d99dfc51aa6a1ed1ff1b1a
[PU: published and sections prepared by the author, Lowville, N.Y.], (9 x 6 inches). Illustrations. 312 samples of wood, each wafer-thin transverse, radial and tangential sections illustr… Mehr…
[PU: published and sections prepared by the author, Lowville, N.Y.], (9 x 6 inches). Illustrations. 312 samples of wood, each wafer-thin transverse, radial and tangential sections illustrating 104 species, window-mounted in 104 card mounts. (Occasional natural cracking and warping to a few samples, perforation stamps to titles of text sections and to first leaf of text in each part). Text in original glazed paper wrappers, samples in card mounts unbound as issued, each text volume and accompanying samples within original green cloth cover in matching original cloth slipcase, with metal catch and bosses to covers Mixed edition. A representative sample of a rare and remarkable work on the woods of America. Volumes I-IV cover all the trees of New York and adjacent states. A contemporary reviewer called it "one of the most marvelous and instructive books ever made" (Art Education). This remarkable work was the lifetime achievement of Romeyn B. Hough, who devoted himself to the study of American trees, and who is best known for his Handbook of Trees of the Northern States and Canada, long a standard reference work in American dendrology. In this work, Hough sought to describe the woods found in America, with a detailed description in an accompanying pamphlet, and with thin cross-sections of actual woods mounted and labeled in accompanying stiff cardboard mounts. These provide a unique record of American wood types, arranged geographically. Generally each species is shown with wood cut on traverse section, radial section, and tangential section. The samples are so thin as to be easily translucent. The age of these specimens gives them tremendous importance from an ecological standpoint, as well as their great interest to students of American furniture and woodcrafts. The trees available to Hough at the time make such an endeavor impossible to contemplate today. Parts I-IV cover New York and adjacent states, part V covers Florida, parts VI-X describe the Pacific Slope, parts XI-XII cover the Atlantic states, and part XIII southern Florida. Part XIV contained a continuation of the work on the trees of Florida with text by Marjorie Hough, using specimens and notes prepared by her father before his death in 1924. Hough explained the unique nature of the work thus: it is `illustrated by actual specimens, and being in this way an exhibition of nature itself it possesses a peculiar and great interest never found in a press-printed book. The specimens are.about 2 x 5 in. in size, and sufficiently thin to admit of examination in transmitted light.Looked at in reflected light they appear as in the board or log. These specimens are mounted in durable frame-like Bristol-board pages, with black waterproofed surfaces.and each bears printed in gilt-bronze the technical name of the species and its English, German, French and Spanish names. The pages are separable.and are accompanied with a full text.giving information as to the uses and physical properties of the woods, and distributions, habits of growth, botanical characters, habitats, medicinal properties, etc,., of the trees. The woods used for the specimens are personally collected by the author. and are sectioned and prepared by a process of his own device'. Complete sets of this work are very rare since subscribers came and went over the 25-year period of publication and many only bought the volume or volumes on the areas that interested them. The volumes were priced at five dollars each, a high price reflecting the work involved in assembling them. The rarity of complete sets can be judged from the fact that Stafleu and Cowan record the work as being complete in 6 volumes. Cf. BM (NH) II,p.880 (pts.1-8 only); cf. Stafleu & Cowan TL2 II, p.341.<
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THE AMERICAN WOODS. EXHIBITED BY ACTUAL SPECIMENS AND WITH COPIOUS EXPLANATORY TEX - gebrauchtes Buch
1928, ISBN: a58cf8a156d99dfc51aa6a1ed1ff1b1a
Lowville, N.Y.: By the Autho, 1910. Volume I-V only (of fourteen). Illustrations. 387 samples of wood, each wafer-thin transverse, radial and tangential sections illustrating 129 species… Mehr…
Lowville, N.Y.: By the Autho, 1910. Volume I-V only (of fourteen). Illustrations. 387 samples of wood, each wafer-thin transverse, radial and tangential sections illustrating 129 species, window-mounted in 129 card mounts. Octavo portfolios. Text in original wrappers, samples in card mounts unbound as issued. Occasional natural cracking and warping to a few samples. Very good. Each text volume and accompanying samples within original brown cloth cover in matching original cloth slipcase, with metal catch and bosses to covers. Each contained in a brown cloth box, morocco label. This remarkable work was the lifetime achievement of Romeyn B. Hough, who devoted himself to the study of American trees, and who is best known for his HANDBOOK OF TREES OF THE NORTHERN STATES AND CANADA, long a standard reference work in American dendrology. In this much larger work Hough sought to describe the woods found in America, with a detailed description in an accompanying pamphlet, and with thin cross- sections of actual woods mounted and labeled on accompanying stiff cardboard mounts. Seventy-five to eighty of these actual wood samples thus accompany each part, or about four hundred separate samples in the present set of the first five volumes. This mass of samples provides a unique record of American wood types, arranged geographically. Generally each species is shown with wood cut on traverse section, radial section, and tangential section. The samples are so thin as to be easily translucent. The age of these specimens gives them tremendous importance from an ecological standpoint, as well as their great interest to students of American furniture and woodcrafts. The trees available to Hough at the time make such an endeavor impossible to contemplate today. The present set consists of the first five volumes. The first volume is the third edition (1910); the second volume is the second edition (1898); the third volume is the second edition (1900); the fourth volume is the first edition (1894); and the fifth volume is the first edition (1894). Hough issued his first portfolio in 1888 and his thirteenth in 1913. This was evidently all he intended to publish, since he lived for eleven years after the final portfolio appeared. In 1928, Hough's daughter issued a final supplementary volume. All of the portfolios issued by Hough were published by him in his hometown of Lowville, New York. Portfolios cost five dollars a piece, a very high price, reflecting the great difficulty in assembling them. Since subscribers came and went over the quarter-century span of publication, and many only purchased the individual portfolios of interest to them, very few complete sets were assembled. It is sufficiently rare that TAXONOMIC LITERATURE only notes six of the parts. Parts I through IV cover New York and adjacent states, and Part V covers Florida. The remaining parts are not present here. Parts VI through X describe the Pacific Slope, Parts XI through XII cover the Atlantic states, and Part XIII covers southern Florida. The final part, XIV, continues with the trees of Florida. One of the greatest American works on trees and woods, a labor of love, here in a set of the first five volumes. TAXONOMIC LITERATURE II:341. BM NATURAL HISTORY II:880 (Parts 1-8 only). SERVIES 9016 (citing all fourteen volumes), By the Autho, 1910, 0<
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The American Woods, exhibited by actual specimens and with copious explanatory text - gebrauchtes Buch
1940, ISBN: a58cf8a156d99dfc51aa6a1ed1ff1b1a
Lowville, N.Y., 1898. Volumes I-II only (of 14), 8vo portfolios. Plates and illustrations. 159 samples of wood in 53 card mounts, each wafer thin transverse, radial and tangential sectio… Mehr…
Lowville, N.Y., 1898. Volumes I-II only (of 14), 8vo portfolios. Plates and illustrations. 159 samples of wood in 53 card mounts, each wafer thin transverse, radial and tangential sections illustrating 53 species. Text in original wrappers, samples on card mounts unbound as issued, each text volume and accompanying samples loose within original green cloth covers, the covers in matching original cloth slipcases, with metal catches and bosses to covers, contained in a single modern green cloth box Provenance: Medford, Mass. Public Library (stamps, labels, perforation mark) One of the greatest American works on trees and woods, a labor of love, and of the greatest rarity in complete sets. This remarkable work was the lifetime achievement of Romeyn B. Hough, who devoted himself to the study of American trees, and who is best known for his Handbook of Trees of the Northern States and Canada, long a standard reference work in American dendrology. In this work, Hough sought to describe the woods found in America, with a detailed description in an accompanying pamphlet, and with thin cross-sections of actual woods mounted and labeled in accompanying stiff cardboard mounts. These provide a unique record of American wood types, arranged geographically. Generally each species is shown with wood cut on traverse section, radial section, and tangential section. The samples are so thin as to be easily translucent. The age of these specimens gives them tremendous importance from an ecological standpoint, as well as their great interest to students of American furniture and woodcrafts. The trees available to Hough at the time make such an endeavor impossible to contemplate today. Parts I-IV cover New York and adjacent states, part V covers Florida, parts VI-X describe the Pacific Slope, parts XI-XII cover the Atlantic states, and part XIII southern Florida. Part XIV contained a continuation of the work on the trees of Florida with text by Marjorie Hough, using specimens and notes prepared by her father before his death in 1924. Hough explained the unique nature of the work thus: it is `illustrated by actual specimens, and being in this way an exhibition of nature itself it possesses a peculiar and great interest never found in a press-printed book. The specimens are....about 2 x 5 in. in size, and sufficiently thin to admit of examination in transmitted light...Looked at in reflected light they appear as in the board or log... These specimens are mounted in durable frame-like Bristol-board pages, with black waterproofed surfaces...and each bears printed in gilt-bronze the technical name of the species and its English, German, French and Spanish names. The pages are separable...and are accompanied with a full text...giving information as to the uses and physical properties of the woods, and distributions, habits of growth, botanical characters, habitats, medicinal properties, etc,., of the trees.. The woods used for the specimens are personally collected by the author? and are sectioned and prepared by a process of his own device'. Complete sets of this work are very rare. The volumes were priced at five dollars each, a high price reflecting the work involved in assembling them. Since subscribers came and went over the 25-year period of publication and many only bought the volume or volumes on the areas that interested them. The rarity of complete sets can be judged from the fact that Stafleu and Cowan record the work as being complete in 6 volumes. Stafleu & Cowan TL2 341., 1898, 0, 8vo. Woodcut emblems and diagrams, typographic tables. Modern retrospective black calf; manuscript ownership inscription on the title, scattered manuscript notes. A very nice copy. First edition, a handbook of medical astrology that also attempts to debunk Descartes. Divided into four parts, the text addresses the influence of the stars, common diseases, prognosis, and remedies according to the influence of the stars. He argues that astrological influence on health and disease is just another scientific absolute that will come to be understood as fact, just as his contemporaries had proven the circulation of the blood and the existence of atoms. Fayol asserts that ailments in different parts of the body are affected by different stars, and he goes so far as to say one who is well versed in this knowledge can diagnose illnesses by looking at the night sky without even seeing the afflicted. Moreover, bleeding and purging (Fayol's remedies of choice for most illnesses) should only be undertaken when the stars are favorable. In the third part, he provides an astrological road map for determining the exact date of one's death. Throughout the book, the author denounces Cartesian belief that everything can be explained through mechanics and affective process. OCLC locates 6 copies in America (Harvard, Berkeley, NLM, Chicago, Penn, and Oklahoma); BM, IX: 91 (479); Fajans, Alchemy & Source Books in Chemistry, 50., Jean d'Houry, Laurent Rondet, and Thomas Moette, 1672, 0, London: The New Sydenham Society, 1859-1901. Cloth. Good. 9" by 6". None. A very scarce and important medical collection comprising sixty-one volumes including an index, printed by the New Sydenham Society, with many of the works appearing in the English language for the first time. The New Sydenham Society was active from 1858 until 1907, and followed in the footsteps of the Sydenham Society, who operated from the early 1940s until the late 1850s. Named for the important seventeenth century physician Thomas Sydenham known as the English Hippocrates, their mission was one of antiquarian interest, aiming to publish medical writings and history works.Two works are incomplete and lacking a volume: 'A Clinical Treatise on Diseases of the Liver' and 'Lectures on Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics'.Many volumes are illustrated, including colour plates and folding plates.With all bar one volume in the original cloth; some have been rebacked and numerous repaired.Comprising: I. 'A Treatise on Syphillis in New-Born Children and Infants at the Breast' was written by P. Diday. It was the first work published by the New Sydenham Society, in 1859.II. 'Gooch, on some of the Most Important Diseases peculiar to Women' was published in 1859.III. 'Memoirs on Diptheria, from the writings of Bretonneau, Guersant, Trousseau, Bouchut, Empis and Daviot' was published in 1859.IV. 'A Clinical Treatise on Diseases of the Liver' was written by Friedrich Theodore Friedrichs, and published in 1861. It is incomplete, this being volume II of the work only. It contains two plates and in-text illustrations.V-VIII. 'A Handbook on the practice of Forensic Medicine' is complete in four volumes, written by Johann Ludwig Casper. These were published between 1861 and 1865.IX. 'A Guide to the Qualitative and Quantative Analysis of the Urine' was written by C. Neubauer and J. Vogel and published in 1863. It is illustrated with four plates, as well as in-text illustrations.X. 'On the Anomalies of Accommodation and Refraction of the Eye' was written by F. C. Donders and published in 1864. It is illustrated with diagrams through the text. From the library of a nineteenth century eye doctor.XI. 'Clinical Memoirs on the Diseases of Women' is two volumes bound as one, and the volume is bound in leather. It was written by M. Gustave Bernutz and M. Ernest Goupil.XII-XVI. 'On Disease of the Skin, including the Exanthemata' is complete in five volumes and was written by Ferdinand Hebra.XVII-XXI. 'Lectures on Clinical Medicine' was written by A. Trousseau, and is complete in five volumes.XXII. 'A Collection of the Published Writings of the late Thomas Addison' was published in 1868. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author and eight plates.XXIII-IV. 'A Manual of Pathological Histology to serve as an Introduction to the Study of Morbid Anatomy' was written by Dr. Eduard Rindfleisch. It is complete in two volumes, published in 1872 and 1873. Illustrated with in-text diagrams.XXV-XXVI. 'The Collected Works of Dr. P. M. Latham' is complete in two volumes, published in 1876 and 1879.XXVII-XXXI. 'Smellie's Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery' is complete in three volumes, published between 1876 and 1878. Volume I is illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author.XXXII. 'Lectures on Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics' by Dr. Theodor Billroth was published in 1877. Incomplete; lacking the second volume. Illustrated with in-text diagrams throughout.XXXIII. 'The Medical Digest' by Dr. Richard Neale is a medical sciences bibliography, published in 1877.XXXIV-XXXV. 'Bibliotheca Therapeutica, or Bibliography of Therapeutics' is complete in two volumes, written by Edward John Waring.XXXVI. 'A Handbook of Physical Diagnosis comprising the Throat, Thorax and Abdomen' was written by Dr. Paul Guttman, and translated from the third German edition. Published in 1879. It is illustrated with five plates.XXXVII. 'Investigations into the Etiology of Traumatic Infective Diseases' was written by Dr. Robert Koch and published in 1880. It is illustrated with five plates.XXXVIII. 'Selections from the Works of Abraham Colles' was published in 1881, and is illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author.XXXIX. 'A Treatise on the Diagnosis and Treatment of the Diseases of the Chest' was published in 1882, and written by William Stokes. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author.XL. 'Selections from the Works of the late J. Warburton Begbie' was published in 1882, and is illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author.XLI. 'Lectures on the Localisation of Cerebral and Spinal Diseases' was published in 1883, and written by J. M. Charcot. Illustrated with in-text diagrams throughout.XLII-III. 'Handbook of Geographical and Historical Pathology' is complete in three volumes and was written by Dr. August Hirsch.XLIV. 'Recent Essays by Various Authors on Bacteria in Relation to Disease' was published in 1886 and written by various authors, including Koch, Friedlander and Loeffler. Illustrated with eight plates. An early and important collection on the nature of bacteria.XLV. 'Selected Monographs: Raynaud's Essays on Local Asphyxia, Klebs and Crudeli on the Nature of Malaria, Marchiafava and Celli on the Origin of Melanaemia and Neugebauer on Spondyl-olisthesis' was published in 1888.XLVI-II. 'Lectures on Children's Diseases, a Handbook for Practitioners and Students' was written by Dr. E. Henoch and is complete in two volumes, published in 1889. XLVIII-L. 'Lectures on General Pathology, a Handbook for Practitioners and Students' was written by Julius Conheim and published between 1889 and 1890. Complete in three volumes.LI. 'Microorganisms with special reference to the Etiology of the Infective Diseases' was written by C. Flugge' and published in 1890. With vignette illustrations throughout.LII-III. 'Lectures on Diseases of the Digestive Organs' was written by C. A. Ewald and is complete in two volumes, published in 1891 and 1892.LIV. 'Selected Monographs on Dermatology' was published in 1893 and contains the writings of the likes of Duhring, Berger, Prince-Morrow and Nielsen.LV-I. 'A Collection of the Published Writings of William Withey Gull' was published in 1894, and is complete in two volumes. Volume LV is illustrated with twenty plates, volume LVI with a frontispiece portrait of the author and one plate. LVI contains the memoir and addresses of Gull. Loosely inserted is a newspaper clipping announcing his death.LVI. 'Clinical Lectures on subjects connected with Medicine and Surgery by various German Authors' was published in 1894, and contains three plates.LVII. 'Selected Essays and Monographs' was published in 1897, and includes writings by Kobner, Bruhl, Maxwell and Wallbridge. It is illustrated with six plates in colour, as well as one folding plate.LVIII. 'On Fractures and Dislocations' was published in 1899, and written by Dr. H. Helferich. It is illustrated with sixty-eight plates including two folding plates, as well as in-text illustrations.LIX. 'Selected Essays and Monographs from Foreign Sources' was published in 1900, and contains one folding table and one illustration. With writings from Maschalko, Heidelberg, Ehlers and Fournier amongst others.LX. 'Selected Essays and Monographs' was published in 1901, and contains eight plates and three portraits. With the writings of the likes of Braxton Hicks, Hodgkin, Paget and Ehlers.LXI. 'Restrospective Memoranda' was published in 1911, and comprises an index of all works published between 1859 and 1907. It was compiled by Sir Jonathan Hutchinson, and is complete with a portrait of the author.A very scarce and extremely important collection of varied medical works. In the publisher's original full cloth binding, with one volume bound in half calf. Externally, a trifle worn; the single leather volume is starting to the joints, and the leather is rather rubbed. Volume XIV has been rebacked with a new spine, as has volume LV. All of the Hebra volumes have been repaired with the original spines laid down bar the third as mentioned, as have the Latham volumes and numerous volumes besides. A little more noticeably worn to volume XLI. Library stamps to I, XXV, XXIX, XLI, LV; library bookplates to the front pastedown of volumes XLI, LI; ownership inscriptions to II, X, XLII, and ownership bookplates to III, XXX, XXXII, XXXIV and XXXV. Internally, generally firmly bound. Binding, particularly front hinge, is strained to volume VII, and to volumes XXII and LIII. Pages are generally bright and clean with the odd spot; volume XXIV is a little spotted, as are the early leaves of volume XXXV. Good, The New Sydenham Society, 1859-1901, 2.5, Lowville, N.Y.: published and sections prepared by the author, 1898. Volume I-IV only (of 14). (9 x 6 inches). Illustrations. 312 samples of wood, each wafer-thin transverse, radial and tangential sections illustrating 104 species, window-mounted in 104 card mounts. (Occasional natural cracking and warping to a few samples, perforation stamps to titles of text sections and to first leaf of text in each part). Text in original glazed paper wrappers, samples in card mounts unbound as issued, each text volume and accompanying samples within original green cloth cover in matching original cloth slipcase, with metal catch and bosses to covers Mixed edition. A representative sample of a rare and remarkable work on the woods of America. Volumes I-IV cover all the trees of New York and adjacent states. A contemporary reviewer called it "one of the most marvelous and instructive books ever made" (Art Education). This remarkable work was the lifetime achievement of Romeyn B. Hough, who devoted himself to the study of American trees, and who is best known for his Handbook of Trees of the Northern States and Canada, long a standard reference work in American dendrology. In this work, Hough sought to describe the woods found in America, with a detailed description in an accompanying pamphlet, and with thin cross-sections of actual woods mounted and labeled in accompanying stiff cardboard mounts. These provide a unique record of American wood types, arranged geographically. Generally each species is shown with wood cut on traverse section, radial section, and tangential section. The samples are so thin as to be easily translucent. The age of these specimens gives them tremendous importance from an ecological standpoint, as well as their great interest to students of American furniture and woodcrafts. The trees available to Hough at the time make such an endeavor impossible to contemplate today. Parts I-IV cover New York and adjacent states, part V covers Florida, parts VI-X describe the Pacific Slope, parts XI-XII cover the Atlantic states, and part XIII southern Florida. Part XIV contained a continuation of the work on the trees of Florida with text by Marjorie Hough, using specimens and notes prepared by her father before his death in 1924. Hough explained the unique nature of the work thus: it is `illustrated by actual specimens, and being in this way an exhibition of nature itself it possesses a peculiar and great interest never found in a press-printed book. The specimens are....about 2 x 5 in. in size, and sufficiently thin to admit of examination in transmitted light...Looked at in reflected light they appear as in the board or log... These specimens are mounted in durable frame-like Bristol-board pages, with black waterproofed surfaces...and each bears printed in gilt-bronze the technical name of the species and its English, German, French and Spanish names. The pages are separable...and are accompanied with a full text...giving information as to the uses and physical properties of the woods, and distributions, habits of growth, botanical characters, habitats, medicinal properties, etc,., of the trees.. The woods used for the specimens are personally collected by the author? and are sectioned and prepared by a process of his own device'. Complete sets of this work are very rare since subscribers came and went over the 25-year period of publication and many only bought the volume or volumes on the areas that interested them. The volumes were priced at five dollars each, a high price reflecting the work involved in assembling them. The rarity of complete sets can be judged from the fact that Stafleu and Cowan record the work as being complete in 6 volumes. Cf. BM (NH) II,p.880 (pts.1-8 only); cf. Stafleu & Cowan TL2 II, p.341., published and sections prepared by the author, 1898, 0<
HOUGH, Romeyn Beck (1857-1924):
The American Woods, exhibited by actual specimens and with copious explanatory text - gebrauchtes Buch2016, ISBN: a58cf8a156d99dfc51aa6a1ed1ff1b1a
Lyon (Lugduni), Apud Antonium Vincentium, 1561. (Colophon at the end: 'Lugduni excudebat Symphorianus Barbierus) 16mo. 854,66 p. Calf 12.5 cm (Ref: Hoffmann 1,586; Graesse 2,400) (Det… Mehr…
Lyon (Lugduni), Apud Antonium Vincentium, 1561. (Colophon at the end: 'Lugduni excudebat Symphorianus Barbierus) 16mo. 854,66 p. Calf 12.5 cm (Ref: Hoffmann 1,586; Graesse 2,400) (Details: Back gilt, and with 4 raised bands, red morocco shield in the second compartment. Endpapers marbled. Edges of the bookblock dyed red. Latin translation only.) (Condition: Binding somewhat scuffed, corners bumped. Waterstain on the title. Paper slightly yellowing) (Note: The 'Antiquitates Romanae' of the Greek rhetor and historian Dionysius Halicarnassensis, who came to Rome ca. 30 B.C. to teach rhetoric, and who spent there at least 22 years or longer, are little known and little read nowadays. His work on literary criticism still is of importance, for it shows that he was an excellent critic with good taste, great knowledge and a subtle judgement. As historian however he is almost forgotten. H.J. Rose's summary of the 'Antiquitates Romanae' explains its weakness: 'He writes as might be expected, in the rhetorical tradition, and as a result his book is nearly worthless as history, devoting much space to elaborate retelling to the late and artificial mythology of Rome. For this very reason, however, it is of some service to students of Roman antiquities, for it preserves a good many interesting facts concerning the earliest civil and religious institutions. We have 11 books left, with excerpts from 9 more, carrrying the narrative down to 271 B.C.' (H.J. Rose, 'A handbook of Greek literature', London 1965, p. 399) The historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus enjoyed great authority until the 18th century. He was thought to be superior to the other Roman historians who wrote about the early history of Rome. His influence on the 'artes historicae' of the Renaissance is great. He was admired by Bodin, Vossius and Scaliger. Then the spirit of the Enlightenment made his poetic conception of history obsolete. Scholars like the Dutch ancient historian Perizonius made mincemeat of him, and burried him in the dust of oblivion. The 'Altertumswissenschaft' of the 19th century held him also in low esteem, and he was degraded to 'Graeculus', an insignificant Greek. The last decades seem to be friendlier for Dionysius. (Bowersock, Gabba). He now has simply become a witness whom scholars start to ask other questions. § The Bohemian classical scholar Sigismund Gelenius, or Zikmund Hrubý, 1497-1554, produced editions of Callimachus, Aristophanes, the Planudean Anthology, Origenes, and the 'editio princeps' of several minor Greek geographers. Circa 1524 he ended up in Basel where he worked as 'lector', translator and critic in the famous Publishing House of Frobenius. (Neue Deutsche Biographie 6 (1964), p. 173) He declined lucrative professorships. In Basel he published in 1549 his Latin translation of the 'Antiquitates Romanae' of Dionysius Halicarnassensis for the first time. It was reissued by Froben in 1555 and 1561. The Lyon printer Sebastianus Gryphus repeated the edition also in 1555, and in 1561 the Lyon printer Antonius Vincentius saw room for yet another edition) (Provenance: On the verso of the front flyleaf in ink: 'Bibliothecae Publicae S(ancti) Vincent, Bisunt, lotte 177'. Bisunt is Bisuntium, the Latin name of the French city Besançon. The French Abbé Jean-Baptiste Boisot, 1638-1694, was a historian and a bibliophile. He was appointed abbot of the Benedict abbey of Saint Vincent in Besançon by King Louis XIV. The abbot left his manuscripts and books to the abbey of Saint Vincent, on condition that the library should be open to the public. (à charge et condition qu'ils mettront le tout dans une salle qui sera ouverte deux fois la semaine à tous ceux qui voudront y entrer ; lesquels pourront y lire et étudier autant de temps qu'ils souhaiteront pendant les deux jours, sans que pourtant il leur soit permis d'en distraire aucun livre). This library forms the kernel of Municipal Library of Besançon. (See for this man, his library and the abbey his lemma in Wikipédia) § On the flyleaf also in a more recent hand: 'ex libris ecure ? Dénans, 1727'. § Still more recent a small ownership label pasted on the verso of the marbled front endpaper: 'Dr. Charles Groffier'. § On the same spot in pencil: 'Brussel 27 sept. 1963', written by the Flemish linguist Walter Couvreur, 1914-1996, who was an Orientalist, and professor of Indoeuropean linguistics at the University of Gent. It indicates the date of aquisition) (Collation: a-z8; A-2L8, 2M4) (Photographs on request), 0, FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Pp. (x) 130 (vi). Roman letter. Woodcut to tp with allegorical figures and instruments. Ornamental head and tail pieces and initials. 14 attractive engraved fold out plates. Early ms to tp, inked over, some show through. Slight age yellowing, a few marginal ink spots, plates in good condition on thick paper, fep and eps a little soiled. A good clean copy in contemp. speckled calf, spine gilt, red morocco label, marbled pastedowns, aer.Handsome first edition of this handbook of military architecture by Nicolas Buchotte, 'ingénieur ordinaire du roi', Louis XV. The work contains fourteen exquisitely engraved plates, mainly large and fold out, that helped to establish graphic standards (rules and maxims) for France's military architects, surveyors and engineers. The work provided a guide to those stationed in colonies and isolated conflict zones to apply practically, clear and basic scientific principles. The plates are demonstrative of contemporary frontier-building that was occurring in France's newly acquired territories. Plate V portrays a floorplan and façade of a barrack structure with an officers' pavilion. It also established a framework, taken up by Henri Gautier de Nîmes and Louis Charles Dupain de Montesson, showing the standardised materials, techniques and colours to be used for maps and plans as well as their spatial organisation. "The implementation of military drawing in France was not only uniquely envisaged as a means of communication and exchange between engineers but also as a tool for valorisation given the rising importance of the professions supported by the founding of the royal academies, including the royal painters, sculptors and architects." (Emilie d'Orgeix, "The Engineer, the Royal Academies, and the Drawing of Maps and Plans in the Earl Modern Period", 2016).The work was originally intended as a manual for Buchotte's two sons. The plates contain a variety of architectural plans, maps of the countryside, abstract portrayals of the correct ground upon which to build military fortifications and guides as to standardised cartographical symbols. He insists on building in harmony with the natural environment, using neutral colours and keeping in tune with surrounding geography. The work was an enormous success and experienced widespread readership and use across Europe well into the nineteenth century."Serve specialmente per gli ombreggiatori, e acquerellatori di mappe, piante e alzati d'ogni genere, e per tutto ciò che riguarda la Topografia, e l'Architettura". (Cicognara)Cicognara 301; This ed. Not in Fowler, not in Brunet., Jombert, 1722, 0, Lowville, N.Y.: by the author, 1910. Volume I-V only (of 14), octavo. (9 x 6 inches). Illustrations. 387 samples of wood, each wafer-thin transverse, radial and tangential sections illustrating 129 species, window-mounted in 129 card mounts. (Occasional natural cracking and warping to a few samples). Text in original wrappers, samples in card mounts unbound as issued, each text volume and accompanying samples within original brown cloth cover in matching original cloth slipcase, with metal catch and bosses to covers. Each contained in a modern brown cloth box with morocco label. Mixed edition. A representative sample of a rare and remarkable work on the woods of America. Volumes I-IV cover all the trees of New York and adjacent states, vol.V is on the trees of Florida. A contemporary reviewer called it "one of the most marvelous and instructive books ever made" (Art Education). This remarkable work was the lifetime achievement of Romeyn B. Hough, who devoted himself to the study of American trees, and who is best known for his Handbook of Trees of the Northern States and Canada, long a standard reference work in American dendrology. In this work, Hough sought to describe the woods found in America, with a detailed description in an accompanying pamphlet, and with thin cross-sections of actual woods mounted and labeled in accompanying stiff cardboard mounts. These provide a unique record of American wood types, arranged geographically. Generally each species is shown with wood cut on traverse section, radial section, and tangential section. The samples are so thin as to be easily translucent. The age of these specimens gives them tremendous importance from an ecological standpoint, as well as their great interest to students of American furniture and woodcrafts. The trees available to Hough at the time make such an endeavor impossible to contemplate today. Parts I-IV cover New York and adjacent states, part V covers Florida, parts VI-X describe the Pacific Slope, parts XI-XII cover the Atlantic states, and part XIII southern Florida. Part XIV contained a continuation of the work on the trees of Florida with text by Marjorie Hough, using specimens and notes prepared by her father before his death in 1924. Hough explained the unique nature of the work thus: it is `illustrated by actual specimens, and being in this way an exhibition of nature itself it possesses a peculiar and great interest never found in a press-printed book. The specimens are....about 2 x 5 in. in size, and sufficiently thin to admit of examination in transmitted light...Looked at in reflected light they appear as in the board or log... These specimens are mounted in durable frame-like Bristol-board pages, with black waterproofed surfaces...and each bears printed in gilt-bronze the technical name of the species and its English, German, French and Spanish names. The pages are separable...and are accompanied with a full text...giving information as to the uses and physical properties of the woods, and distributions, habits of growth, botanical characters, habitats, medicinal properties, etc,., of the trees.. The woods used for the specimens are personally collected by the author... and are sectioned and prepared by a process of his own device'. Complete sets of this work are very rare. The volumes were priced at five dollars each, a high price reflecting the work involved in assembling them. Since subscribers came and went over the 25-year period of publication and many only bought the volume or volumes on the areas that interested them. The rarity of complete sets can be judged from the fact that Stafleu and Cowan record the work as being complete in 6 volumes. Cf. BM (NH) II,p.880 (pts.1-8 only); cf. Stafleu & Cowan TL2 II, p.341., by the author, 1910, 0<
The American Woods, exhibited by actual specimens and with copious explanatory text - gebrauchtes Buch
1924
ISBN: a58cf8a156d99dfc51aa6a1ed1ff1b1a
Lowville, N.Y.: published and sections prepared by the author, 1898. Volume I-IV only (of 14). (9 x 6 inches). Illustrations. 312 samples of wood, each wafer-thin transverse, radial and … Mehr…
Lowville, N.Y.: published and sections prepared by the author, 1898. Volume I-IV only (of 14). (9 x 6 inches). Illustrations. 312 samples of wood, each wafer-thin transverse, radial and tangential sections illustrating 104 species, window-mounted in 104 card mounts. (Occasional natural cracking and warping to a few samples, perforation stamps to titles of text sections and to first leaf of text in each part). Text in original glazed paper wrappers, samples in card mounts unbound as issued, each text volume and accompanying samples within original green cloth cover in matching original cloth slipcase, with metal catch and bosses to covers Mixed edition. A representative sample of a rare and remarkable work on the woods of America. Volumes I-IV cover all the trees of New York and adjacent states. A contemporary reviewer called it "one of the most marvelous and instructive books ever made" (Art Education). This remarkable work was the lifetime achievement of Romeyn B. Hough, who devoted himself to the study of American trees, and who is best known for his Handbook of Trees of the Northern States and Canada, long a standard reference work in American dendrology. In this work, Hough sought to describe the woods found in America, with a detailed description in an accompanying pamphlet, and with thin cross-sections of actual woods mounted and labeled in accompanying stiff cardboard mounts. These provide a unique record of American wood types, arranged geographically. Generally each species is shown with wood cut on traverse section, radial section, and tangential section. The samples are so thin as to be easily translucent. The age of these specimens gives them tremendous importance from an ecological standpoint, as well as their great interest to students of American furniture and woodcrafts. The trees available to Hough at the time make such an endeavor impossible to contemplate today. Parts I-IV cover New York and adjacent states, part V covers Florida, parts VI-X describe the Pacific Slope, parts XI-XII cover the Atlantic states, and part XIII southern Florida. Part XIV contained a continuation of the work on the trees of Florida with text by Marjorie Hough, using specimens and notes prepared by her father before his death in 1924. Hough explained the unique nature of the work thus: it is `illustrated by actual specimens, and being in this way an exhibition of nature itself it possesses a peculiar and great interest never found in a press-printed book. The specimens are....about 2 x 5 in. in size, and sufficiently thin to admit of examination in transmitted light...Looked at in reflected light they appear as in the board or log... These specimens are mounted in durable frame-like Bristol-board pages, with black waterproofed surfaces...and each bears printed in gilt-bronze the technical name of the species and its English, German, French and Spanish names. The pages are separable...and are accompanied with a full text...giving information as to the uses and physical properties of the woods, and distributions, habits of growth, botanical characters, habitats, medicinal properties, etc,., of the trees.. The woods used for the specimens are personally collected by the author... and are sectioned and prepared by a process of his own device'. Complete sets of this work are very rare since subscribers came and went over the 25-year period of publication and many only bought the volume or volumes on the areas that interested them. The volumes were priced at five dollars each, a high price reflecting the work involved in assembling them. The rarity of complete sets can be judged from the fact that Stafleu and Cowan record the work as being complete in 6 volumes. Cf. BM (NH) II,p.880 (pts.1-8 only); cf. Stafleu & Cowan TL2 II, p.341., published and sections prepared by the author, 1898, 0<
The American Woods, exhibited by actual specimens and with copious explanatory text - Taschenbuch
1898, ISBN: a58cf8a156d99dfc51aa6a1ed1ff1b1a
[PU: published and sections prepared by the author, Lowville, N.Y.], (9 x 6 inches). Illustrations. 312 samples of wood, each wafer-thin transverse, radial and tangential sections illustr… Mehr…
[PU: published and sections prepared by the author, Lowville, N.Y.], (9 x 6 inches). Illustrations. 312 samples of wood, each wafer-thin transverse, radial and tangential sections illustrating 104 species, window-mounted in 104 card mounts. (Occasional natural cracking and warping to a few samples, perforation stamps to titles of text sections and to first leaf of text in each part). Text in original glazed paper wrappers, samples in card mounts unbound as issued, each text volume and accompanying samples within original green cloth cover in matching original cloth slipcase, with metal catch and bosses to covers Mixed edition. A representative sample of a rare and remarkable work on the woods of America. Volumes I-IV cover all the trees of New York and adjacent states. A contemporary reviewer called it "one of the most marvelous and instructive books ever made" (Art Education). This remarkable work was the lifetime achievement of Romeyn B. Hough, who devoted himself to the study of American trees, and who is best known for his Handbook of Trees of the Northern States and Canada, long a standard reference work in American dendrology. In this work, Hough sought to describe the woods found in America, with a detailed description in an accompanying pamphlet, and with thin cross-sections of actual woods mounted and labeled in accompanying stiff cardboard mounts. These provide a unique record of American wood types, arranged geographically. Generally each species is shown with wood cut on traverse section, radial section, and tangential section. The samples are so thin as to be easily translucent. The age of these specimens gives them tremendous importance from an ecological standpoint, as well as their great interest to students of American furniture and woodcrafts. The trees available to Hough at the time make such an endeavor impossible to contemplate today. Parts I-IV cover New York and adjacent states, part V covers Florida, parts VI-X describe the Pacific Slope, parts XI-XII cover the Atlantic states, and part XIII southern Florida. Part XIV contained a continuation of the work on the trees of Florida with text by Marjorie Hough, using specimens and notes prepared by her father before his death in 1924. Hough explained the unique nature of the work thus: it is `illustrated by actual specimens, and being in this way an exhibition of nature itself it possesses a peculiar and great interest never found in a press-printed book. The specimens are.about 2 x 5 in. in size, and sufficiently thin to admit of examination in transmitted light.Looked at in reflected light they appear as in the board or log. These specimens are mounted in durable frame-like Bristol-board pages, with black waterproofed surfaces.and each bears printed in gilt-bronze the technical name of the species and its English, German, French and Spanish names. The pages are separable.and are accompanied with a full text.giving information as to the uses and physical properties of the woods, and distributions, habits of growth, botanical characters, habitats, medicinal properties, etc,., of the trees. The woods used for the specimens are personally collected by the author. and are sectioned and prepared by a process of his own device'. Complete sets of this work are very rare since subscribers came and went over the 25-year period of publication and many only bought the volume or volumes on the areas that interested them. The volumes were priced at five dollars each, a high price reflecting the work involved in assembling them. The rarity of complete sets can be judged from the fact that Stafleu and Cowan record the work as being complete in 6 volumes. Cf. BM (NH) II,p.880 (pts.1-8 only); cf. Stafleu & Cowan TL2 II, p.341.<
THE AMERICAN WOODS. EXHIBITED BY ACTUAL SPECIMENS AND WITH COPIOUS EXPLANATORY TEX - gebrauchtes Buch
1928, ISBN: a58cf8a156d99dfc51aa6a1ed1ff1b1a
Lowville, N.Y.: By the Autho, 1910. Volume I-V only (of fourteen). Illustrations. 387 samples of wood, each wafer-thin transverse, radial and tangential sections illustrating 129 species… Mehr…
Lowville, N.Y.: By the Autho, 1910. Volume I-V only (of fourteen). Illustrations. 387 samples of wood, each wafer-thin transverse, radial and tangential sections illustrating 129 species, window-mounted in 129 card mounts. Octavo portfolios. Text in original wrappers, samples in card mounts unbound as issued. Occasional natural cracking and warping to a few samples. Very good. Each text volume and accompanying samples within original brown cloth cover in matching original cloth slipcase, with metal catch and bosses to covers. Each contained in a brown cloth box, morocco label. This remarkable work was the lifetime achievement of Romeyn B. Hough, who devoted himself to the study of American trees, and who is best known for his HANDBOOK OF TREES OF THE NORTHERN STATES AND CANADA, long a standard reference work in American dendrology. In this much larger work Hough sought to describe the woods found in America, with a detailed description in an accompanying pamphlet, and with thin cross- sections of actual woods mounted and labeled on accompanying stiff cardboard mounts. Seventy-five to eighty of these actual wood samples thus accompany each part, or about four hundred separate samples in the present set of the first five volumes. This mass of samples provides a unique record of American wood types, arranged geographically. Generally each species is shown with wood cut on traverse section, radial section, and tangential section. The samples are so thin as to be easily translucent. The age of these specimens gives them tremendous importance from an ecological standpoint, as well as their great interest to students of American furniture and woodcrafts. The trees available to Hough at the time make such an endeavor impossible to contemplate today. The present set consists of the first five volumes. The first volume is the third edition (1910); the second volume is the second edition (1898); the third volume is the second edition (1900); the fourth volume is the first edition (1894); and the fifth volume is the first edition (1894). Hough issued his first portfolio in 1888 and his thirteenth in 1913. This was evidently all he intended to publish, since he lived for eleven years after the final portfolio appeared. In 1928, Hough's daughter issued a final supplementary volume. All of the portfolios issued by Hough were published by him in his hometown of Lowville, New York. Portfolios cost five dollars a piece, a very high price, reflecting the great difficulty in assembling them. Since subscribers came and went over the quarter-century span of publication, and many only purchased the individual portfolios of interest to them, very few complete sets were assembled. It is sufficiently rare that TAXONOMIC LITERATURE only notes six of the parts. Parts I through IV cover New York and adjacent states, and Part V covers Florida. The remaining parts are not present here. Parts VI through X describe the Pacific Slope, Parts XI through XII cover the Atlantic states, and Part XIII covers southern Florida. The final part, XIV, continues with the trees of Florida. One of the greatest American works on trees and woods, a labor of love, here in a set of the first five volumes. TAXONOMIC LITERATURE II:341. BM NATURAL HISTORY II:880 (Parts 1-8 only). SERVIES 9016 (citing all fourteen volumes), By the Autho, 1910, 0<
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