ALBIN, E.
A Natural History of Spiders, and other Curious Insects. Illustrated with Fifty three copper plates, engraved by the best hands.
London, printed by John Tilly for R. Montagu, 1736. 4to (285 x 222mm). pp. (8), 76, with a handcoloured frontispiece showing Albin seated on a hors...
EUR 3,900.00

BELON, P.
La nature & diversité des poissons. Avec leurs pourtraicts, representez au plus pres du naturel.
Paris, Charles Estienne, 1555. Oblong-8vo (105 x 165mm). (20) leaves, pp. 448, with 192 woodcuts inthe text. Contemporary limp vellum, gilt edges.
EUR 6,500.00

BOCK, H.
De Stirpium, maxime earum, quae in Germania nostra nascuntur... His accesserunt a fronte praefationes duae: altera D. Conradi Gesneri... rei herbariae scriptorum, qui in huncusq; diem
scripserunt, catalogum complectens: altera ipsius Authoris, herbariae cognitiones laudes... Adiectus est Benedicti Textoris Segusiani de stirpium d...
EUR 14,000.00

CHENU, J.C.
Bibliothèque Conchyliologiques.
Series I-II (all publ). Paris, A. Franck, 1845-1846. 5 volumes. Small-4to. With 195 lithographed orengraved plates. Contemporary half calf, gilt sp...
EUR 3,900.00

DAUBENTON, E.L. & MARTINET, N.
[Planches enluminées d'histoire naturelle: ENTOMOLOGIE...].
(Paris, Panckoucke, 1765-83). Large-folio (450 x 315mm), with 35 hand-coloured engraved plates of butterflies and other subjects drawn and engraved...
EUR 4,800.00

EERELMAN, O & QUADEKKER, E.A.L.
Paardenrassen. Kunstalbum van een en veertig afbeeldingen naar schilderijen van Otto Eerelman. Met beschrijvingen door E.A.L. Quadekker.
Zutphen, Schillemans & Van Belkum, (1898). Large folio (620 x 470mm). With 41 chromo-lithographed plates of horses and accompanying letterpress te...
EUR 17,000.00

FUCHS, L.
Primi de Stirpium historia comentariorum tomi vivae Imagines...
Basileae, Isingrin, 1549. 8vo (165 x 105mm). pp. (16), 516, with woodcut printer's device on titlepage and 516 full page woodcuts, leaves ruled in ...
EUR 6,500.00

HILL, J.
The Vegetable System. Or, the Internal Structure and the Life of Plants; their Parts, and Nourishment Explained; their Classes, Orders, Genera, and Species, ascertained, and described; in a Method altogether New: comprehending an Artificial Index and a Natural System. With figures of all plants designed and engraved by the author. The whole from nature only.
London, the author, 1761-1775. 26 volumes bound in 13. Folio (445 x 290mm), with 1546 engraved plates on 1544 leaves. Contemporary calf, richly gil...
EUR 45,000.00

MAUND, B.
The Botanic Garden; consisting of highly finished representations of hardy ornamental flowering plants, cultivated in Great Britain with their names, classes, orders, history, qualities, culture, and physiological observations.
Vol. I-VIII (all published !). London, Simpkin & Marshall, 1826-1836. 8 volumes. Royal-8vo (225 x 175mm). With 768 handcoloured engraved plates. La...
EUR 15,000.00

OLIVIER, G.A.
Entomologie, ou histoire naturelle des Insectes, avec leurs caractères génériques et spécifiques, leur description, leur synonymie et leur figure enluminée.
COLEOPTERES. Paris, Baudouin/ Desray, 1789-1808. 6 volumes. Large-4to (300 x 240mm). With 1 colour-printed engraved frontispiece and 362 handcolour...
EUR 17,000.00

REEVE, L.A.
Conchologia Iconica, or, Illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals.
London, Reeve Bros., 1843-1864. 14 volumes. 4to. With 1892 lithographed plates, all but 5 (as is always the case) beautifully handcoloured plates. ...
EUR 30,000.00

[RÉMOND].
Entomological archives, manuscripts and watercolours of the 18th and early 19th century, from the Rémond family, of Semur en Auxois (Burgundy). The authors are Louis Rémond, physician at Semur during the 18th century, F.M. Rémond likewise physician and author of 'Avis aux pères et aux mères sur la vaccine', Dyon & Semur 1818, and his son Maurice Rémond, lawyer at Semur. The greater part of the collection concerns the latter two who both were keen entomologists. The main objects in the collection are 125 watercolour drawings of caterpillars and their cocoons and a full translation into French of Roesel von Rosenhof's 'Der monatlich-herausgegebenen Insecten-Belustigungen'.
EUR 45,000.00

THOMSON, JAMES & HERCULE NICOLET.
A unique collection of Nicolet's art work for Thomson's publications. Hercule Nicolet is one of the best French natural history artists of the 19th century. The collection comprises 125 original splendid drawings in watercolour and a few in ink. Almost all drawings are signed by the artist. The collection belonged to James Thomson, who had his publications bound in beautiful bindings mostly with his gilt coat of arms, on spines or front covers. For a detailed description of this highly interesting collection see below.
EUR 38,000.00

WERNER, A.G.
Letztes Mineral-System. Aus dessen Nachlasse auf oberbergamtliche Anordnung herausgegeben und mit Erläuterungen versehen (von J.K. Freiesleben).
Freyberg & Wien, Graz und Gerlach/ Gerold, 1817. 8vo (203 x 128mm). pp. xiv, 58. Publisher's printed decorated wrappers.
EUR 1,800.00

WURFFBAIN, J.B.
Salamandrologia, h.e. descriptio historico philologico philosophico medica Salamandrae quae vulgo in igne vivere creditur ...
Norimbergae, G. Scheurer, 1683. Small-4to (198 x 163mm). pp. (6), 133, (15), with engraved frontispiece and 5 engraved folded plates. Contemporary ...
EUR 3,000.00