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REICHENBACH, H.G.L.
Deutschlands Flora mit höchst naturgetreuen, charakteristischen Abbildungen aller ihrer Pflanzen=Arten in natürlicher Grösse und mit Analysen auf Kupfertafeln, als Beleg für die Flora Germanica excursoria und zur Aufnahme und Verbreitung der neuesten Entdeckungen innerhalb Deutschlands und der angrenzenden Länder: ... (Band II:) FAMILIE DER KREUZBLUETHLER ODER VIERMAECHTIGEN: CRUCIFERA S. TETRADYNAMAE CUM RESEDEIS.
Leipzig, F. Hofmeister, 1837-1838. 4to. pp. iv, 121, (1), with 102 partly handcoloured engraved plates. Unbound in contemporary blind half cloth po...
EUR 250
the most important book to be published in England during the eighteenth century on the plant growing in a private garden
DILLENIUS, J.J.
Horti Elthamensis plantarum rariorum icones et nomina Joh. Jac. Dillenio, M.D. descriptarum Elthami in Cantio, in Horto... Jacobi Sherard... additis denominationibus Linnaeanis.
Lugduni Batavorum, C. Haak, 1774. 2 volumes (bound in one). Folio (404 x 260mm). Leaves (6); 1, with 325 etched plates. New full mottled calf, spin...
EUR 9,000
pioneering work on forestry
DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU, (H.L.).
La Physique des Arbres; où il est traité de l'anatomie des Plantes et de l'économie végétale: Pour servir d'Introduction au Traité complet des Bois & des Forests ... pour l'exploitation des Bois & des Forêts.
Paris, Guerin & Delatour, 1758. 2 volumes. 4to (250 x 195mm). pp. (6), lxviii, 307; iv, 432, with 50 folded engraved plates. Contemporary half calf...
EUR 1,800
STURM, J.
Catalog meiner Insecten-Sammlung. Erster Theil: Käfer.
Nürnberg, Gedruckt auf Kosten des Verfassers, 1826. 8vo (220 x 125mm). pp. viii, 207, (1), 16, (2),with 4 hand-coloured engraved plates. Recent ha...
EUR 500
DEJEAN, P.F.
Catalogue de la collection de Coléoptères de M. le Baron Dejean.
Paris, Crevot, 1821. 8vo (205 x 125mm). pp. (6), viii, 136. Recent half calf, spine with gilt lettered label.
EUR 500
botanical subjects by the famous Italian artists Guido Reni, A.M. Variana, and P. Cortona
FERRARI, G.B.
Flora ouero Cultura di Fiori.
Distinta in Quattro Libri e trasportata dalla lingua Latina nell'Italiana ... Roma, P.A. Facciotti,1638. Small-4to (225 x 165mm). pp. (12), 520, (2...
EUR 2,500
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
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 (295 x 230mm). pp. 16, with 18 (12 hand-coloured) plates. Unbound in original printed wra...
EUR 1,500
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
Probably one of the nicest frontispieces in the history of entomological illustration
THOMSON, J.
Monographie des Cicindélides ou Exposé méthodique et critique des Tribus, Genres et Espèces de cette famille.
Tome I (all published). Paris, Baillière, 1857. 4to (318 x 240mm). pp. xvii, 66, (2), with a splendid handcoloured engraved frontispiece and 10 (9...
EUR 1,500
GESNER, A.
Remarks on the geology and mineralogy of Nova Scotia.
Halifax, Gossip and Coade, Times Office, 1836. 8vo. pp. xl, 272, (2), with 1 folded lithographed frontispiece, 1 folded handcoloured geological map...
EUR 600
Leech described many species new to science in the present work
LEECH, H.J.
Butterflies from China, Japan, and Corea.
London, R.H. Porter, 1892-1894. 3 volumes. 4to (285 x 220mm). pp. lv, (7), 1-298; (2), 297-681; (4), with 48 (43 chromo-) lithographed plates and 1...
EUR 6,500
A magnificent work on the flora of the Dutch East Indies
BLUME, C.L.
Flora Javae nec non insularum adjacentium ... adjutore J.B. Fischer.
Bruxellis, J. Frank, 1828 (-1851). 10 parts, preserved in 4 folding boxes. Folio (448 x 285mm). With 1 frontispiece and 238 lithographed plates of ...
EUR 14,000
interesting association copy from the library of Jean Baptiste Verany
BONAPARTE, C.L.
Catalogo metodico dei Pesci Europei.
Napoli, Stamperia e Cartiere del Fibreno, 1846. 4to (315 x 220mm). pp. 97, (3), vignette of fisheson title. Contemporary half calf, gilt lettering...
EUR 1,900
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
The colouring of the present sumptuously bound copy is the best we have ever seen of this book
ROESEL VAN ROSENHOF, A.J.
De Natuurlyke Historie der Insecten; Voorzien met naar 't Leven getekende en gekoleurde Plaaten.
Volgens eigen ondervinding beschreeven, ... Met zeer nutte en fraaie Aanmerkingen verrykt, door C.F. Kleemann. Uit den echten Hoogduitschen Druk .....
EUR 15,000
Famous work on pomology and fruit trees, the first monographs published with colour plates on this subject
KNOOP, J.H.
Beschrijving en afbeeldingen van de beste soorten van Appelen en Peeren ...
(together with:) Beschryving der vruchtbomen en vruchten die men in de hoven plant en onderhoud ...(together with:) Beschryving der plantagie-gewas...
EUR 2,700
The fine lithographed plates show a.o. numerous bats, orang-outangs and other mammals
TEMMINCK, C.J.
Monographies de Mammalogie, ou description de quelques genres de Mammifères, dont les espèces ont été observées dans les différens musées de l'Europe. Ouvrage accompagné de planches d'Ostéologie, pouvant servir de suite et de complément aux Notices sur les animaux vivans, publiées par M. le baron G. Cuvier, dans ses Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles.
Paris, G. Dufour & d'Ocagne, 1827-1841. 4to (270 x 195 mm). 2 volumes, comprising 17 parts, bound in one. pp. (4), xxxii, 268, (4, publisher's cata...
EUR 2,500
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
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
one of the most beautiful shell books ever made
KIENER, L.C.
Spécies Général et Iconographie des Coquilles Vivantes, comprenant la collection du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris, la collection Lamarck, celle du Prince Masséna et les découvertes récentes des Voyageurs.
Paris, Rousseau/ Baillière, (1834)-1880. 11 volumes. Royal-8vo (240 x 155mm). With 903 fine hand-coloured engraved plates. Later half blue calf, s...
EUR 16,000
CASSONE, F.
Flora Medico-Farmaceutica compilata dal dottore in medicina e chirurgia Felice Cassone.
Torino, Tipografia di Giuseppe Cassone, 1847-1852. 6 volumes. Royal-8vo (230 x 150mm). pp. xxxv, 364; 391; 392; 383; 414; 394, with 600 fine handco...
EUR 5,000
THUNBERG, C.P.
Icones Plantarum Japonicarum, quas in insulis Japonicis annis 1775 et 1776 collegit et descripsit...
Uppsala, J.F. Erdman, 1794-1805. Folio (430 x 275mm). Only 10 of 50 engraved plates, loose.
EUR 1,800
It is the first and only major flora published of Sardinia and adjacent islands
MORIS, G.G.
Flora Sardoa seu Historia Plantarum in Sardinia et adjacentibus insulis vel sponte nascentium vel ad utilitatem latius excultarum.
Taurini, ex Regio Typographeo, 1837-1859. 3 volumes. 4to (270 x 208mm). pp. xii, 606; 562, (2); 564, with 114 engraved plates after drawings by M. ...
EUR 8,200
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
NOVARA-
Reise der Österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 (B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair). ZOOLOGISCHER THEIL, Zweiter Band.
Wien, Kaiserlich-Königlichen Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1868. 4to (285 x 230mm). [Contains:] Heller,C. Crustaceen. pp. 280, with 25 engraved plates...
EUR 1,000
KERNER, J.S.
Abbildung aller Oekonomischen Pflanzen. Siebenter Band.
Stuttgart, gedruckt in der Herzoglichen Buchdrukerei, 1794. 4to (290 x 235mm). With hand-coloured engraved title vignette and 100 fine hand-coloure...
EUR 1,000
The present work shows Gualtieri's collection and is one of the most curious and beautiful books on shells ever published
GUALTIERI, N.
Index Testarum Conchyliorum quae adservantur in Museo Nicolai Gualtieri... et methodice distributae exhibentur tabulae CX.
Florence, C. Albizzini, 1742. Folio (464 x 325mm). pp xxiii [including frontispiece], (1); ff. 126,with engraved frontispiece, portrait, 110 number...
EUR 7,000
First edition, first issue
DARWIN, C.
Insectivorous Plants.
London, John Murray, 1875. 8vo (190 x 125mm). pp. x, 462, with 30 figures in the text. Publisher's green cloth.
EUR 1,800
one of the most interesting colour-printed natural history works
BULLIARD, P.
Herbier de la France, ou Collection complette des Plantes Indigènes de ce Royaume; avec leurs détails anatomiques, leurs propriétés, et leurs usages en Médecine.
Paris, chez l'Auteur, Didot Jeune..., 1780-(1793). 15 volumes. Folio (345 x 255mm). With 1 colour-printed frontispiece and 602 colour-printed engra...
EUR 10,000
SAUSSURE, H. DE & SICHEL, J.
Catalogus specierum generis Scolia (sensu latiori) continens specierum diagnoses, descriptiones synonymiamque, additis annotationibus explanatoriis criticisque. Catalogue desespèces de l'ancien genre Scolia, contenant les diagnoses, les descriptions et la synonymie des espèces, avec des remarques explicatives et critiques.
Genevae, H. Georgium, 1864. Royal-8vo (215 x 140mm). pp. (4), 350, (2), with 2 handcoloured, engraved plates. Later half cloth, marbled sides.
EUR 350
HEROLD, J.M.
Exercitationes de animalium vertebris carentium in ovo formatione. Pars prima. De Generatione Aranearum in Ovo/ Untersuchungen über die Bildungsgeschichte der wirbellosen Thiere im Eie. Erster Theil. Von der Erzeugung der Spinnen im Eie.
Marburg, J.C. Krieger und Comp., 1824. Folio (400 x 255mm). pp. x, x, 63, 63, with 4 (2 handcoloured) engraved plates. Publishers printed blue boar...
EUR 550
GODART, J.B.
Histoire naturelle des Lépidoptères ou Papillons de France.
Tome troisième: DIURNES. Crépusculaires. Paris, Crevot, 1822. 8vo. pp. (4), 192, with 12 handcoloured engraved plates. Contemporary half cloth, s...
EUR 250
COLLA, L.A.
Icones Plantarum Rariorum Herbarii Pedemontani.
(Turin, ex Typis regiis, 1835-1837). 3 parts. 4to (285 x 235mm). With 98 fine lithographed plates by Tecophila Colla. Publisher's original printed ...
EUR 1,500
The very fine illustrations depict flowers and fruit growing in the Netherlands
OTTOLANDER, K.J.W., KOSTER, A. & DE VOS, C. (Eds.).
Nederlandsche Flora en Pomona, beschreven en uitgegeven door het Bestuur der Pomologische Vereeniging te Boskoop. Met platen naar de natuur geteekend door A.J. Wendel
Groningen, J.B. Wolters, 1879. 2 volumes. Folio (320 x 250 mm). pp. ix, xii , (4), 235, with 81 chromolithograped plates of fruit and flowers. Publ...
EUR 3,800
REICHENBACH, H.G.L.
Icones florae Germanicae et Helveticae, simul Pedemontanae ... 2. Auflage.
Band XI. Leipzig, F. Hofmeister, 1849. 4to. pp. (4), 32, with 100 engraved plates. Contemporary half cloth, spine with gilt lettering.
EUR 250
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
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
Nissen in his publication 'Die botanische Buchillustration' speaks highly of him 'seine Tafeln... verdienen volles Lob'.
DREVES, J.F. & HAYNE, F.G.
Choix de Plantes d'Europe, décrites et dessinées d'après nature.
Leipzig, Voss et Compagnie, 1802. 5 volumes. 4to (295 x 230mm). pp. xii, 40; xii, 44; xii, 44; xii,40; x, 38, with 125 fine hand-coloured engraved ...
EUR 4,200