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A fine copy of one of the most attractive shell books ever produced

MARTYN, T. Figures of non-descript Shells collected in the different Voyages to the South Seas since the year 1764 ... [Vols. I and II:] The Universal Conchologist, exhibiting the Figure of every known Shell, accurately drawn and painted after Nature: with a new systematic arrangement by the Author... [Vols. III and IV:].

London, sold at his house no. 16 Great Marlborough Street, [1784-] 1789 [-1812]. 4 volumes. 4to (335 x 273mm), vol. I with engraved frontispiece of...

EUR 88,000

BROOKSHAW, G. A new treatise on Flower Painting, or every lady her own drawing master: containing familiar and easy instructions for acquiring a perfect knowledge of drawing flowers with accuracy and taste: also complete directions for producing the various tints.

London, Longman, Hurst..., 1818. 4to (310 x 245mm). pp. (2), 36, with 1 plain engraved plate 'of strokes' and 12 fine handcoloured stipple engraved...

EUR 800

a work on the value of American (primarily South American) cultivated plants

GILII, F.L. & XUAREZ, G. Osservazioni fitologiche sopra alcune piante esotiche introdotte in Roma fatte nell'Anno 1788, 1789, 1790.

Roma, Stamperia di Arcangelo/ Stamperia Giunchiana, 1789-1792. 3 volumes, bound in one. 4to (245 x 180mm). pp. 64; (2), viii, 99, (1, blank); (4), ...

EUR 9,500

OBERTHUER, C. Etudes de Lépidoptérologie comparée, Fasc.

XIbis: OBERTHUER, C., HOULBERT, C. & DODD, F.P. Contributions à l'étude des Grands Lépidoptères d'Australie (Genres Coscinocera et Xyleutes). R...

EUR 250

the most important event in Darwin's intellectual life and in the history of biological science

DARWIN, C. et al. The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, under the command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N., during the years 1832 to 1836.

London, Smith, Elder & Co., [1838-] 1840-43. 5 parts bound in three volumes. 4to (315 x 245mm), with 166 lithographed plates, a few folding, 82 han...

EUR 175,000

A well preserved set, of this great classic on natural history, dealing almost exclusively with zoology

BUFFON, (G.L.L.) & LACEPEDE, (B.G.E.). Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière, avec la description du Cabinet du Roy .

Paris, l' Imprimerie Royale, Hôtel de Thou, Plassan, 1749-1804. 44 volumes. 4to (245 x 192mm). With1 engraved portrait of Buffon, 4 folded tables,...

EUR 36,000

KIRBY, W. & SPENCE, W. Einleitung in die Entomologie: oder Elemente der Naturgeschichte der Insecten.

Stuttgart, Cottaissche Buchhandlung, 1823-33. 4 volumes. 8vo (202 x 125mm). pp. xxviii, 582; pp. iv, 604; pp. iv, (2), 760, 29, (2); pp. 665, with ...

EUR 550

LINDENIA, ICONOGRAPHY OF ORCHIDS. Conducted by J. Linden, Lucien Linden, Em. Rodigas and R. A. Rolfe.

Brussels, Lucien Linden, 1891-1892. Folio (365 x 280mm). Volumes II & III. With 48 fine chromolithographed plates (numbered 289-336). Contemporary ...

EUR 960

P.F. Dejean was called 'the first great coleopterist'

DEJEAN, P.F. & BOISDUVAL, J.A. Iconographie et histoire naturelle des Coléoptères d'Europe.

Paris, Méquignon-Marvis, 1829-1836 (-1838). 5 volumes. 8vo (230 x 150mm). pp. xiv, 400; 407, (1); 326; 486; 415, (1), with 270 handcoloured engrav...

EUR 3,500

printed in an edition of 50 copies only

RENIER, S.A. Osservazioni postume di Zoologia Adriatica.

Pubblicate per cura dell' I.R. Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti a studio del G. Meneghini. Venezia, G. Cecchini, 1847. Large-Folio (510 ...

EUR 3,200

SACHS, J. Geschichte der Botanik vom 16. Jahrhundert bis 1860.

München, R. Oldenbourg, 1875. 8vo (210 x 130mm). pp. xii, 612. Recent blue cloth.

EUR 500

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

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

A beautifully bound copy of this rare work on the flora of Java

HORSFIELD, T. & J.J. BENNETTT & R. BROWN. Plantae Javanicae rariores, descriptae iconibusque illustratae, quas in insula Java, annis 1802-1818, legit et investigavit Thomas Horsfield, M.D. e siccis descriptiones et characteres plurimarum elaboravit Joannes J. Bennett; observationes structuram et affinitates praesertim respicientes passim adjecit Robertus Brown.

London, W.H. Allen, 1838-1852. Folio (365 x 265mm). pp. (2), viii, xvi, (2), 258, (2), with an engraved folded map and 50 (some double-page) engrav...

EUR 15,000

Total price: EUR 335,960
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