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SHAW, G.
General Zoology or Systematic Natural History: PISCES.
London, G. Kearsley, 1803-1804. 4 volumes. Royal-8vo (212 x 132mm). pp. v, (2), 1- 192; xiii, (2),193-632; v, (2), 1- 250; vi, (2), 251-463, with 4...
EUR 1,200
LUCAS, H.
Histoire Naturelle des Lépidoptères d'Europe, ouvrage orné de près de 400 figures, peintes d'après nature par A. Noel.
Paris, Paquet/ L. Debure, 1834. 8vo (225 x 135mm). pp. (4), 216, with 80 fine hand-coloured engraved plates. Contemporary half calf (joints splitti...
EUR 700
MARTYN, W.F.
A New Dictionary of Natural Sciences; or, compleat universal display of animated nature. With accurate representations of the most curious and beautiful animals, elegantly coloured.
London, Harrisson, 1785. Folio (360 x 235mm), With 71 (of 100) fine hand-coloured engraved plates and a number of text pages lacking. Worn contempo...
EUR 900
SCHOTT, J.J.
Schmetterlingskalender oder systematisches Verzeichnis aller Schmetterlinge, welche in Deutschland bekannt sind.
Frankfurt am Main, P.S. Guilhauman, 1830. 8vo (218 x 135mm). pp. vi, (2), 500, 52, with 7 handcoloured engraved plates. Contemporary boards .
EUR 300
BOSGOED, MULDER. D.
Bibliotheca Ichthyologica et Piscatoria. Catalogus van boeken en geschriften over de natuurlijke geschiedenis van de visschen en walvisschen, de kunstmatige vischteelt, de visscherijen, de wetgeving op de visscherijen, enz.
Haarlem, de Erven Loosjes, 1873. 8vo (232 x 148mm). pp. xxvi, 474. Contemporary red half calf, spine in 6 compartments with gilt lettering.
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 500
FORBES, E. & HANLEY, S.
A history of British Mollusca, and their shells.
London, J. van Voorst, 1853. 4 volumes. Royal-8vo. pp. lxxx, 486; viii, 557, (1); x, 616; vi, 301, (1), with 203 lithographed plates. Original clot...
EUR 1,300
MULSANT, E.
Opuscules Entomologiques.
Paris 1852-1875. Volumes 1-4, 7-16 (bound in 4). Royal-8vo (230 x 155mm). pp. 2759, with 12 portraits and 12 plates. Recent brown cloth.
EUR 800
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
The first work on Hungarian birds in the Hungarian language
CHERNEL, I.
Magyar Ornithologiai Központ. Magyarország Madarai különös tekintettel gazdasági jelentöségökre.
Budapest 1899. 2 volumes (282 x 200mm). pp. xxiv, 187; xix, 830, with 56 lithographed plates of which 51 chromo-lithographed and numerous figures i...
EUR 2,400
SALM-REIFFERSCHEID-DYCK, J., Fürst von.
Plantae Succulentae Horti Dyckensis. 1820.
(privately printed, Schloss Dyck, 1820). 12mo (155 x 105mm). pp. 42. Paper spine.
EUR 550
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
According to Horn & Schenkling no. 11170 'sehr selten'.
ILLIGER, K.
Olivier's Entomologie oder Naturgeschichte der Insekten mit ihren Gattungs- und Artmerkmalen, ihrer Beschreibung und Synonymie. KÄFER. Uebersetzt und mit Zusätzen und Anmerkungen durchgängig begleitet.
Braunschweig, Karl Reichard, 1800-1802. 2 volumes. 4to. pp. xvi, 309, (3); pp. 4, 266, (2), with 5 engraved plates. Contemporary half calf, red and...
EUR 1,000
The most attractive illustrated English work on mycology
SOWERBY, J.
Coloured figures of English Fungi or Mushrooms.
London, printed by J. Davis and sold by the Author, 1797-1803, (1815). 3 volumes, bound in 2. Folio(320 x 200mm). With 440 hand-coloured engraved p...
EUR 12,000
HEUDE, R.P.
Conchyliologie fluviatile de la province de Nanking (et la Chine Centrale), fasc.
I-VI, VIII-IX. Paris, F. Savy, 1875-1885. 4to. 8 parts. With 62 lithographed plates and descriptivetext. Original printed wrappers.
EUR 800
SONNINI, C.S.
Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt, undertaken by order of the old government of France. Illustrated by engravings, consisting of portaits, views, plans, antiquities, plants, animals... Translated from the French.
London, J. Debrett, 1800. 4to (267 x 200mm). pp. xl, 730, (12), 1, with frontispiece portrait of the author, 1 folded engraved map of Egypt by Danv...
EUR 550
Thomas Say (1787-1834), was one of the premier native born American naturalists of the early nineteenth century
SAY, T.
American Entomology. A description of the Insects of North America. Edited by John L. Le Conte, M.D. with a memoir of the author, by Georg Ord.
New York, J.W. Bouton, 1869. 2 volumes. Royal-8vo. pp. xxiv, 412; iv, 814, with 54 handcoloured lithographed plates. Publisher's green cloth.
EUR 1,700
catalogue of the minerals in Romé de Lisle's own mineral cabinet
ROMÉ de LISLE, J.B.L.
Description méthodique d'une collection de minéraux, du cabinet de M.D.R.D.L. Ouvrage où l'on donne de nouvelles idées sur la formation & la décomposition des mines, avec un court exposé des sentimens des minéralogistes les plus connus, sur la nature de chaque espèce...
Paris, Didot jeune and Knapen, 1773. 8vo (194 x 123 mm). pp. (xxxii), 299, (5), with engraved frontispiece; a fine, crisp copy in contemporary Fren...
EUR 3,200
These Chinese export watercolours were made for the western market and produced in the port cities of China of which Canton was the most important one
CHINA- TEA CULTURE AND CULTIVATION.
A collection of 12 finely executed Chinese original drawings on rice paper around 1850.
All drawings are framed and glazed. The drawings (200 x 320mm) are superbly executed and exceptionally colourful and show the various stages of pic...
EUR 5,800
MÜLLER, O.F.
Hydrachnae, quas in aquis Daniae palustribus detexit, descripsit...
Lipsiae, S.L. Crusius, 1781. 4to (255 x 200mm). pp. lxxxviii, with engraved title-vignette and 11 handcoloured engraved plates. Contemporary boards...
EUR 800
SALM-REIFFERSCHEID-DYCK, J., Fürst von.
Index plantarum Succulentarum in Horto Dyckensi cultae...
Aachen, Beaufort, 1822. 8vo (203 x 130mm). pp. (ii), 60; a fine copy in original wrappers.
EUR 550
The work lists 110 foreign plants which Linneaus had introduced, among them many Siberian plants
LINNAEUS, C.
Hortus Upsaliensis, exhibens Plantas Exoticas, Horto Upsaliensis Academiae a sese illatas ab anno 1742 in annum 1748, additis differentiis, synonymis habitationibus, hospitiis, rariorumque descriptionibus, in gratiam studiosae juventutis.
Amstelaedami, apud J. Wetstenium, 1748. 8vo (196 x 115mm). pp. (10), 306, (40), with 3 folded engraved plates. 19th century half calf, spine with g...
EUR 1,000
HEERKENS, G.N.
Aves Frisicae.
Rotterrodami, apud C.R. Hake, 1788. 8vo. pp. 298, (1), with a charming engraved title showing a bird (Alauda) by J.L. Anselin. Contemporary marbled...
EUR 1,200
PERCHERON, A.R.
Catalogue de livres d'entomologie provenant de la bibliothèque de M. Percheron, auteur de plusieurs ouvrages d'entomologie dont la vente aura lieu Rue des Bons-Enfant, 28, salle no. 4 (dans la cour), Jeudi 25 et Vendredi 26 avril 1861, a sept heures du soir, par le ministère de Me Danthonay, commissaire-priseur...
Paris, L. Leclerc, 1861. 8vo (225 x 140mm). pp. (4), 27. Sewed as issued. [together with:] SALLE, A. Catalogue de la bibliothèque et des collectio...
EUR 500
ENCYCLOPÉDIE OU DICTIONNAIRE RAISONNÉ DES SCIENCES, DES ARTS ET DES MÉTIERS...
Publié par Diderot et d'Alembert: 46 planches d'Histoire Naturelle.
Paris 1762(?). Folio (430 x 280mm). 43 fine engraved plates and descriptive text. Recent half calf,spine with gilt lettered red label.
EUR 1,500
one of the most splendid narratives in the literature of African exploration
BRUCE, J.
Voyage en Nubie et en Abyssinie, entrepris pour découvrir les sources du Nil. Pendant les années 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 & 1773. Traduit de l'Anglais, par M. Castera.
Paris, Hôtel de Thou, 1790-1791. 5 volumes of text & 1 atlas. 4to. pp. lxxxiii, 620; 784; 858; 752;328, clxiii, with 7 (4 large folding) engraved ...
EUR 3,000
OBERTHÜR, C.
Études d'Entomologie. Deuxième livraison: NOUVEAUX LÉPIDOPTÈRES DE LA CHINE.
Rennes, Imp. Oberthür et fils, 1876. 8vo (300 x 205mm). pp. 34, with 4 lithographed plates. Publisher's printed wrappers.
EUR 850
The beautifully drawn watercolour drawings of caterpillars are of a superb quality
[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 35,000
YARKAND MISSION- SCIENTIFIC RESULTS OF THE SECOND YARKAND MISSION;
based upon the collections and notes of the late F. Stoliczka. COLEOPTERA.
Calcutta, Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, 1890. Folio (360 x 255mm). pp. 79, with 2 lithographed plates. Publisher's printed w...
EUR 150
WALCKENAER, C.A.
Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire naturelle des abeilles solitaires qui compose le genre Halicte.
Paris, Firmin Didot, 1817. 8vo (230 x 150mm). pp. (4), 95, with 1 hand-coloured engraved plate. Contemporary green boards, spine with gilt lettered...
EUR 500
important book dealing with the history of zoological illustration through the centuries
NISSEN, C.
Tierbücher aus fünf Jahrhunderten.
Muenchen 1968. 4to. pp. 108, (1), with frontispiece. Publisher's printed wrappers (together with:) Sixty original plates (many handcoloured) from G...
EUR 2,500
the first comprehensive world summary of amphibians and reptiles and contains still-useful historical information
LACEPEDE, (B.G.E.).
Histoire Naturelle des Quadrupèdes Ovipares et des Serpens.
Paris, Hôtel de Thou, 1788-1789. 2 volumes. 4to (255 x 190mm). pp. 17, (1), 651, with 2 large folded tables and 41 engraved plates; pp. 8, 19, (1)...
EUR 2,100
Reeve's first major book, foreshadowing his great 'Conchologia Iconica'
REEVE, L.
Conchologia Systematica, or complete system of conchology: in which the Lepades and Conchiferous Mollusca are described and classified according to their natural organizationand habits.
London, Longman, Brown, Green & Longman, 1841-1842. 2 volumes. 4to (275 x 210mm). pp. vi, 195; pp. (2), 337. With 1 folded table and 301 handcolour...
EUR 12,000
The only other copy known is in the British Museum
NOVÆ FLORUM ICONES
Hujus generis atrium cultoribus perutiles, maximâ curâ deliniatæ, et tabulis æneis incisæ. Ex Officina Nicol: Visscher.
A series of 16 copper engravings, numbered lower right, 257 x 175 mm, within the borders c. 229 x 146 mm.
EUR 7,500
the first separate general work on fungi, describing edible and poisonous varieties
STERBEECK, F. VAN.
Theatrum Fungorum oft het tooneel der Campernoelien. Waer inne vertoont wort de gedaente, ken-teeckens, natuere, crachten, voetsel, deught ende ondeught; mitsgaders het voorsichtigh schoonmaken ende bereyden van alderhande Fungien...
Antwerpen, Joseph Jacobs, 1675. 4to (200 x 155mm). pp. (38), 396, (20), with engraved frontispiece,1 folded engraved portrait and 36 (many folded) ...
EUR 15,000
HUMBOLDT, A. VON & BONPLAND, A.
Beobachtungen aus der Zoologie und vergleichenden Anatomie, gesammelt auf einer Reise nach den Tropen-Ländern des neuen Kontinents, in den Jahren 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803und 1804. Bearbeitet und herausgegeben von dem Erstern.
Tübingen, bey F.C. Cotta/ Paris, bey Levrault, Schoell und Compagnie, 1806. 4to (342 x 250mm). pp. x, 212. Contemporary blue boards (a bit worn).
EUR 1,000
my copy is an unicum as it includes a third part quite unknown till today
WARD, C.
African Lepidoptera, being descriptions of new species.
London, Longmans, Green & Co. (1873-1875 ?). 3 parts. 4to. pp. 16, with 18 (12 handcoloured) plates. Unbound in original printed wrappers.
EUR 1,500
on y trouve la plupart des champignons d'Europe
BARLA, J.B.
Flore Mycologique Illustrée.
Les Champignons des Alpes Maritimes. Avec l'indication de leurs propriétés utiles ou nuisibles. Nice, A. Giletta, 1888 (-1892). 7 parts bound in ...
EUR 2,100
ROMÉ DE L'ISLE, J.B.
Description méthodique d'une collection des minéraux du cabinet de M.D.R.D.L. Ouvrage où l'on donne de nouvelles idées sur la formation & la décomposition des Mines, avec un court exposé des sentimens des Minéralogistes les plus connus, sur la nature de chaque espèce, le Minéralisateur qui s'y rencontre, & la quantité de métal qu'elle produit.
Paris, Didot jeune/ Knapen, 1773. 8vo (195 x 125mm). pp. xxxii, 299, (3), (2, Approbation, Privilege). Old vellum, spine with recent red label.
EUR 1,500
OLDROYD, I.S.
The Marine Shells of the West Coast of North America.
Stanford, Univerity Press, 1924-27. 2 volumes (bound in 4). Royal-8vo. pp. 247; 297, 304, 339 with 165 plates. Recent red half morocco, gilt decora...
EUR 400
DISTANT, W.L.
A monograph of oriental Cicadidae. Published by order of the trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta.
London, King & Co/ Calcutta, Indian Museum, 1889-1892. 7 parts. Large-4to. pp. 157, (1), ix, (5), with 15 partly handcoloured lithographed plates. ...
EUR 1,300
VANDELLI, D.
Dissertationes Tres. De Aponi Thermis: de nonnullis Insectis terrestribus, & Zoophytes marinis, & de vermium terrae reproductione, atque Taenia Canis.
Patavii, J. Batistae Conzatti, 1758. 8vo (220 x 140mm). pp. vi, (2), 167, (1), (12, index), with engraved frontispiece, engraved title vignette an...
EUR 650
THOMSON, J.
Arcana Naturae ou Receuil d'Histoire Naturelle.
Paris, chez J.B. Baillière et Fils, 1859. Folio (390 x 295mm). pp. (2), 132, with a beautifully engraved frontispiece and 13 engraved plates of wh...
EUR 850