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There were 18 new Australian plants, with 24 figured
VENTENAT, E.P. & REDOUTÉ, P.J.
Jardin de Malmaison.
Paris, Crapelet, An XI (1803-1804) (-1805). 2 volumes. Folio (543 x 360mm). With 120 stipple-engraved plates by Redouté, printed in colours and fi...
EUR 85,000
(GODET, C.H.).
Les Plantes Vénéneuses du Canton de Neuchatel.
Neuchatel, Montandon Frères, 1864. Royal-8vo. pp. x, 59, (1), with 26 hand-coloured lithographed plates. Contemporary half cloth.
EUR 700
illustrated with chromolithographs, designed, printed and sometimes "rebouché au pinceau" in the large printing office situated in the middle of van Houtte's gardens
FLORE DES SERRES ET DES JARDINS DE L'EUROPE,
ou descriptions des plantes les plus rares et les plus méritantes ... Rédigé par C. Lemaire, Scheidweiler & Van Houtte e.a.
Gand, van Houtte, 1845-1880. 23 volumes. Royal-8vo (252 x 180mm). With over 2500, nearly all coloured plates. Contemporary brown half calf, spines ...
EUR 15,000
Many of the woodcuts were copies of the 8vo edition of Fuchs' herbal
DODONAEUS, R.
Histoire des Plantes, en laquelle est contenue la description entiere des herbes, c'est à dire, leurs especes, forme, noms, temperament, vertus... nouvellement traduite de bas Aleman en François par Charles de l'Escluse.
Anvers, Iean Loë, 1557. Folio (280 x 195mm). pp. (24), 584. (36), with c. 800 woodcuts in the text.Early 18th century full red morocco, sides with...
EUR 9,000
intended as a supplement to Agassiz's 'Recherches sur les poissons fossiles'
THIOLLIÈRE, V.J. DE L'ISLE.
Description des poissons fossiles provenant des gisements coralliens du Jura dans le Bugey...
Paris, J.B. Baillière, 1854-73. 2 livraisons. Folio (544 x 360 mm). pp. (iv), 26, (2); 70, with 26 lithographed plates, 24 coloured and 7 double-p...
EUR 3,900
The fine plates show marine animals of the Adriatic sea such as shells and crustacean
PLANCUS, J.
De Conchis minus notis liber cui accessit specimen aestus reciproci maris superi ad littus portumque Arimini.
Venetiis, Typis Joannis Baptistae Pasquali, 1739. 4to (260 x 190mm). pp. 88, with woodcut title vignette and 5 engraved folded plates (Together wit...
EUR 3,900
The following figures were selected from General Hardwicke's Collection of Drawings
GRAY, G.R.
Descriptions and Figures of some new Lepidopterous Insects chiefly from Nepal.
London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846. 8vo (215 x 135mm). pp. 16, with 16 engraved plates of which 14 beautifully hand-coloured. Contem...
EUR 1,900
SCHLECHTER, R.
Orchideologiae Sino-Japonicae Prodromus. Eine kritische Besprechung der Orchideen Ost-Asiens.
Dahlem bei Berlin, Verlag des Repertoriums, 1919. 8vo (252 x 165mm). pp. (4), 319. Publisher's printed wrappers.
EUR 750
SISMONDA, E.
Synopsis methodica animalium invertebratorum Pedemontii fossilium (exceptis speciebus ineditis).
Augustae Taurinorum, Typis Regiis, 1847. 8vo. (215 x 140mm). pp. viii, 62. Publisher's printed wrappers.
EUR 150
SMUTS, J.
Dissertatio Zoologica, enumerationem Mammalium Capensium continens.
Leidae, J.C. Cyfveer, 1832. 4to (268 x 215mm). pp. (8), vi, 108, (2), with 3 (2 handcoloured) lithographed plates. Contemporary printed boards.
EUR 350
DUMONT D'URVILLE, J.S.
Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée, exécuté par ordre du Roi pendant les années 1837-1838-1839-1840.
Text-volumes only:
Zoologie.
Vol. 1. Paris 1846. pp. (6), 404. Publisher's printed blue boards.
Vol. 2. Paris 1846. pp. (6), 384. Publishe...
EUR 1,800
A fine and beautifully bound copy of the most splendid work on the birds of Great Britain
GOULD, J.
The Birds of Great Britain.
London, Taylor and Francis by the Author, [1862] - 1873. 5 volumes. Folio (545 x 370mm). With 367 fine hand-coloured lithographed plates, many heig...
EUR 85,000
The work of Marbodus is the earliest lapidary of the middle ages
MARBODUS (Bishop of Rennes).
Marbodei Galli Poetae Vetustissimi de lapidibus pretiosis Enchiridion, cum scholijs Pictorij Villingensis. Eivsdem Pictorii De lapide molari carmen. Lectori. Qui cupis emunctim gemmarum scire medullas, Huc uenias, totum continet iste liber: Qui decies senis capitellis nomina dicit, Et species, patrias, quid ualeant 'qz simul. Anno M.D.XXXI.
[Freiburg in Breisgau, P. Willig], 1531. 8vo (152 x 95mm). [2], 3-55, [1], leaves. Recent boards, covered with old printed paper.
EUR 5,800