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The first major contribution towards the Geology of Tasmania
JOHNSTON, R.M.
Systematic account of the Geology of Tasmania.
Hobart, J. Walch & Sons, 1888. Large-4to. pp. (4), 6, xxii, (2), 408, with folded coloured geological map of Tasmania, 57 mostly tinted lithographe...
EUR 1,900
BLOCH, M.E.
Naturgeschichte der Ausländischen Fische.
Berlin, Auf Kosten des Verfassers, 1785-1795. Text volumes to parts I, II, III, IV, V, VIII, IX. 4to. (290 x 240mm). pp. (8), 136; (8), 160; x, (2)...
EUR 1,200
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
BUFFON, (G.L.L.).
Histoire Naturelle des Minéraux.
Dordrecht, A. Blussé & Fils, 1798. 4to (282 x 225 mm). 5 volumes (bound in 2). pp. (4), 253; (4), 262; (4), 277; (4), 204; (4), (324), Contemporar...
EUR 1,600
The present dissertations contain all their original printed titles
FALLÉN, C.F.
Diptera Sveciae.
Lundae, Berlingianis, 1814-1825 (-1826). 2 volumes (bound in one). 8vo (204 x 165mm). 45 dissertations. Recent red half morocco, richly gilt orname...
EUR 1,900
A large paper copy with proof plates
ADANSON, M.
Histoire naturelle de Sénégal. COQUILLAGES.
Paris, chez Claude-Jean-Baptiste Bauche, 1757. 4to (292 x 222mm). pp. (8), 190, xcvi, 275, with 1 folded engraved map and 19 engraved plates. Conte...
EUR 2,800
BASILEWSKY, S.
Ichthyographia China Borealis.
Moscou, Société Impériale des Naturalistes , (1855). 4to (280 x 205 mm). pp. 215-263, with 9 fine chromolithographed plates by Bachmann. Recent...
EUR 900
KLEYNHOFF, C.F.
Bedenkingen over het einde, waartoe de Insecten vermoedelyk geschapen zyn. Voorgedraagen in de Maatschappy Felix Meritis.
Amsterdam, P.J. Uylenbroek, 1805. 8vo (217 x 130mm). pp. (6), 300, (12), with 1 engraved plate. Contemporary half calf, spine with red gilt lettere...
EUR 500
ILLIGER, J.K.W.
Verzeichniss der Käfer Preussens. Entworfen von Johann Gottlieb Kugelann, Apotheker in Osterode. Ausgearbeitet von Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger. Mit einer Vorrede des Professors und Pagenhofmeisters Hellwig in Braunschweig und dem angehängten Versuche einer natürlichen Ordnungs- und Gattungs- Folge der Insekten.
Halle, J. Gebauer, 1798. 8vo (202 x 120mm). pp. xlii, (2), 510, (2) with 1 folded table. Later halfcalf, gilt lettered spine.
EUR 500
The excellent woodcuts show snakes, amphibia, scorpions, fish, a dog suffering from rabies, poisonous plants etc.
GREVIN, J.
De venenis libri due. Gallice primum ab eo scripti, et à multis hactenus Latini desiderati, & nunc tandem opera & labore Hieremiae Martij Augustanae Reipublicae medici, in Latinum sermonem, summa fide & dilligentia, in rei medicae studiosorum utitlitatem atque commodum conversi. Quibus adiunctus est praetereà eiusdem auctoris de antimonio tractatus, eodem interprete, unà cum rerum memorabilium, praecipuè ad operis calcem, Indice.
Antweriae, ex officina Chistophori Plantini, 1571. 4to (223 x 155mm). pp. (20), 332, (10), with 92 woodcuts in the text. Contemporary limp vellum (...
EUR 3,800
POLLINI, C.
Flora Veronensis quam in prodromum florae Italiae Septentrionalis exhibit.
Veronae, Typis et expensis Soc. Typogr., 1822-1824. 3 volumes. 8vo (225 x 145mm). (I) pp. xxxv, 535, with 2 engraved folded plates; (II) pp. 754, w...
EUR 1,500
Of all the herpetological treatises to emerge in France immediately following the French Revolution, the most comprehensive was Daudin's.
DAUDIN, F.M.
Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Reptiles. Ouvrage faisant suite à l'Histoire Naturelle générale et particulière, composée par Leclerc de Buffon et rédigée par C.S. Sonnini ...
Paris, Dufart, An X-XI (1801-1803). 8 volumes. Royal-8vo (208 x 135 mm). pp. 384; 432; 452; 397; 365; 447; 436; 439, with 100 engraved plates and 2...
EUR 1,500
OWEN, R.
Memoir on the Pearly Nautilus (Nautilus Pompilius, Linn.) with illustrations of its external form and internal structure.
London, W. Wood, 1832. 4to (285 x 225mm). pp. 68, with 8 plates of which plates 1-7 in two states. Later half calf, spine with red gilt lettered la...
EUR 450
The work of father Gumilla is one of the most curious and interesting hitherto published upon the country of the Orinoco
GUMILLA. J.
El Orinoco ilustrado, y defendido, historia natural, civil, y geographica de este gran rio, y de sus caudalosas vertientes; govierno, usos, y costumbres de los Indios sus habitadores, con nuevas, y utiles noticias de animales, arboles, frutos, aceytes, resinas, yervas, y raices medicinales... Secunda impression, revista, y aumentada por su mismo autor, y dividida en dos partes.
Madrid, Manuel Fernandez, 1745. 2 vols. 4to (220 x 150mm). pp. (48), 403, (5); pp. (8), 412, (16), with 1 large engraved folding map of the Orinoco...
EUR 5,500
SAINT AMANS, J.F.
Philosophie entomologique, ouvrage qui renferme le généralités nécessaires pour s'initier dans l'étude des Insectes... suivi de l'exposition des méthodes de Géoffroi, et de celle de Linné combinée avec le système de Fabricius.
Agen, Noubel/ Paris, Dugour, An VII (1799). 8vo (225 x 135mm). pp. vii, (1), 152, (1, errata). Recent half calf, gilt ornamented spine with black g...
EUR 500
NOVARA- REISE DER OESTERREICHISCHEN FREGATTE NOVARA UM DIE ERDE IN DEN JAHREN 1857, 1858, 1859,
unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. v. Wüllerstorf-Urbair. ZOOLOGISCHER THEIL. Zweiter Band. 1 Abt. (Entomologie).
Wien 1868. 4 parts bound in one. 4to (300 x 225mm). With 15 (4 hand-coloured) plates. Later half calf, spine with 2 black gilt lettered labels.
EUR 500
