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IN addition to works on English and European literature, the fine arts and a selection of important new books, a catalogue recently published by Bernard Quaritch, 11 Grafton Street, London, W.I, contains an annotated list of works on natural history including books from the library of Baron Bouck, early medicine and surgery from the library of Sion College, and the exact and applied sciences. Among the numerous Works on natural history may be mentioned the German text of J. Hübner's “Collection of Exotic Butterflies” (1806-1841) described as “an extremely fine and complete copy of the greatest entomological work ever produced,” “Rippon's monograph on bird-wing butterflies (1898-1906), of which not more than thirty copies were completed, and Dresser and Sharpe's history of the birds of Europe (1871-1896). The most notable works on medicine and surgery in the catalogue are the first quarto edition of Sir Thomas Elyot's “Castel of Helth” (1541), the first edition of Gerard's “Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes” (1597) and the first edition of Harvey's “De Motu Cordis” (1628). A mong the old works on the exact and applied sciences figure the first edition of Cocker's “Arithmetik” (1678), Billingsley's translation of Euclid's “Elements of Geometrie” (1570), Watson's translation of Bernard Palissy's “Learned Dialogue Concerning Waters and Fountaines” and Zahn's work on contemporary optics (1702).
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A Catalogue of Rare Books. Nature 142, 567–568 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142567f0
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