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A collection of plates of this rare and beautifully produced work

HOFFMANNSEGG, J.C. & H.F. LINK. Flore Portugaise ou description de toutes les plantes qui croissent naturellement en Portugal.

Berlin, Charles Fréderic Amelang for the authors, 1809-1820 (-1840). Folio (535 x 3605mm). 185 stipple engraved plates printed in colours and fini...

EUR 4,000

Most of the excellent plates were drawn by Prêtre and have delicate colouring

LEPELETIER DE SAINT-FARGEAU, A. & BRULLÉ, A. Histoire des Insectes. HYMÉNOPTÈRES.

Paris, Roret, 1836-1846. 4 volumes of text & 1 atlas. 8vo (210 x 130mm). pp. (4), 547; (4), 680; (4), 646; viii, 680, with 48 engraved plates, of w...

EUR 1,800

because of his numerous merits he was called 'father of mineral chemistry'

HENCKEL, J.-F. Pyritologie, ou histoire naturelle de la Pyrite, ouvrage dans lequel on examine l'origine, la nature, les propriétés & les usages de ce Minéral important, & de la plûpart desautres substances du même regne: on y a joint le Flora Saturnisans, où l'auteur démontre l'alliance qui se trouve entre végétaux et les minéraux; et les opuscules minéralogiques qui comprenent un traité de l'appropriation, un traité de l'origine des pierre, plusieurs mémoires sur la chymie & l'histoire naturelle, avec un traité des maladies des mineurs & des fondeurs. Ouvrages traduits de l'Allemand (par M. Charas).

Paris, J.-T. Hérissant, 1760. 4to (255 x 190 mm). pp. xviii, 403, (1), 524, with 1 engraved frontispiece and 5 folded engraved plates. Contemporar...

EUR 2,100

MARIOTTE, E. Oeuvres de Mr. Mariotte, de l'Academie Royale des Sciences; divisées en deux tomes, comprenant tous les Traitez de cet Auteur, tant ceux qui avoient déja paru séparément, queceux qui n'avoient pas encore été publiez; Imprimées sur les Exemplaires les plus exacts & les plus complets. Revuës & corrigées de nouveau.

Leide, Pierre Van Der Aa, 1717. 2 volumes (bound in one). 4to (240 x 190mm). pp. (12), 1-320; (4), 321-701, (35), with 2 engraved title vignettes a...

EUR 1,500

The best modern book in English on the art and practice of Falconry

SALVIN, F.H. & W. BRODRICK. Falconry in the British Isles. Second edition, revised and enlarged.

London, Jan van Voorst, 1873. Royal 8vo (283 x 185mm). pp. viii, (2), 171, (1), with 28 fine handcoloured lithographed plates. Later green half cal...

EUR 4,500

WEBSTER, J. Metallographa: or an history of metals, Wherein is declared the signs of ores and minerals both before and after digging... with the descriptions of sundry new metals, or semi-metals,

and many other things pertaining to mineral knowledge. London, printed by A.C. for Walter Kettilby,1671. Small-4to. pp. (16), 388, (2). Contemporar...

EUR 2,100

Total price: EUR 16,000
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