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beautifully illustrated work on China
NIEUHOF, J.
Het gezandtschap der Neêrlandtsche Oost-Indische Compagnie, aan den grooten Tartarischen Cham, Den tegenwoordigen Keizer van China: waar in de gedenkwaerdigste geschiedenissen... beneffens een naauwkeurige Beschryvinge der Sineesche Steden, Dorpen, Regeering... Gewassen, Dieren...
Amsterdam, W. Waasberge, 1693. Folio (315 x 205mm). pp. (6), 208, 258, (9), with engraved frontispiece, engraved portrait of the author, 1 folding ...
EUR 4,800
these birds were seen by Van Royen in the collection of the eminent Amsterdam merchant, Theodorus de Leeuw (1679-1744), at his country house of Elsenburg, on the river Vecht, near Maarssen
ROYEN, WILLEM II VAN.
Two Silver Pheasants and a Black-crowned Night Heron in a landscape.
Signed and dated, lower right W V ROYEN 1735, also dated lower left: 1735, inscribed in brown ink on verso: 'dese vogels sijn bij d: edl: aghtb: He...
EUR 20,000
Siebold was the first western scientist to fully explore the fauna of Japan
SIEBOLD, P.F. VON.
Fauna Japonica: TEMMINCK, C.J. Aperçu générale et spécifique sur les Mammifères qui habitent le Japon et les iles qui en dépendent (bound up with:) Les Mammifères Marins.
Lugduni Batavorum, Arnz, (1842-1844). Folio (415 x 305mm). pp. (4), 1-41 (of 59); 26, with 30 (23 finely hand-coloured) lithographed plates. Disbou...
EUR 6,500
a treatise on medical plants of India
ORTA, GARCIA DA & MONARDES, N.
Dell'historia de i semplici aromati, et altre cose che vengono portate dall'Indie Orientali pertinenti all'uso della medicina di Don Garzia Dall'Horto... et due altri libri parimente di quelle cose che si portano dall'Indie Occidentali di Nicolo Monardes... tradotti... da Annibale Briganti...
Venezia, G. Salis, 1616. 8vo (160 x 110mm). pp. (32), 525, (1), with printer's device on title and numerous woodcuts in the text. Contemporary limp...
EUR 1,800
contains 2 large folding maps of Sicily and 1 folding map of the Etna,
BORCH, M.J. Comte de.
Lettres sur la Sicile et sur l'Ile de Malthe.
Turin, Freres Reycends, 1782. 2 volumes. 8vo (192 x 125mm). pp. xix, (1), 236; 256, with 3 folding maps and 26 engraved plates. Contemporary calf, ...
EUR 2,500
one of the most beautiful bird books of this period
EDWARDS, G.
A Natural History of Uncommon Birds, and of some other Rare and Undescribed Animals, Quadrupedes, Reptiles, Fishes, Insects, &c.
London, for the Author, (1739-), 1743-1751. 4 volumes. 4to (295 x 235mm). With handcoloured engraved frontispiece, 1 engraved portrait, and 210 bea...
EUR 25,000
one of the most important works on flower gardens and the cultivation of flowers of Northern Italy
CLARICI, P.B.
Istoria e coltura delle piante che sono pe'l fiore più ragguardevoli , e più distinte per ornare un giardino... con un copioso trattato degli agrumi...
Venezia, presso Andrea Poletti, 1726. 4to (235 x 175mm). pp. (34), 761, (3), with an engraved portrait of Clarici holding a bouquet of flowers in h...
EUR 5,000
Classic works by "the father of forest entomology"
RATZEBURG, J.T.C.
Die Forst-Insecten oder Abbildung und Beschreibung der in den Wäldern Preussens und der Nachbarstaaten als schädlich oder nützlich bekannt gewordenen Insecten; in systematischer Folge und mit besonderer Rücksicht auf die Vertilgung der Schädlichen. Zweite mit Zusätzen und Berichtigungen vermehrte Auflage.
Berlin, in der Nicolai'schen Buchhandlung, 1839-1844. 3 volumes. 4to (275 x 220mm). pp. xvi, 247, (1); v, (3), 252; viii, 314 with frontispiece, 13...
EUR 3,900
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
One of the finest works on butterflies ever published
SEPP, J.C.
Beschouwing der wonderen Gods, in de minst geachte schepzelen.
Of Nederlandsche Insecten, naar hunne aanmerkelijke huishouding, verwonderlijke gedaantewisseling en andere wetenswaardige bijzonderheden ... Amste...
EUR 20,000
The first major work on the orchids of the Dutch East Indies and Japan
BLUME, C.L.
Collection des Orchidées les plus remarquables de l'Archipel Indien et du Japon.
Ouvrage dédié à sa Majesté Guillaume I Roi de Wurtemberg. Amsterdam, C.G. Sulpke, 1858. Folio (454 x 290mm). pp. (6), vi, 190, with hand-colour...
EUR 8,000
MORIS, J. & NOTARIS, DE. J.
Florula Caprariae sive enumeratio plantarum in insula Capraria vel sponte nascentium vel ad utilitatem Latius excultarum.
Torino, ex Typographia Regia, (1839). 4to (310 x 235mm). pp. 242, with 6 engraved plates. Later wrappers.
EUR 800
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
the first work dealing exclusively with birds' eggs and birds' nests
ZINANNI, G.
Delle uova e dei nidi degli uccelli libro primo del Conte Giuseppe Zinanni.
Aggiunte in fine alcune osservazioni, con una dissertazione sopra varie spezie di Cavalette. Venezia, A. Bortoli, 1737. 4to (285 x 204 mm). pp. (8)...
EUR 3,900
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 large number of the plants depicted and described are from Australia and South Africa
ANDREWS, H.C.
The Botanist's Repository, comprising colour'd engravings of new and rare plants only, with botanical descriptions in Latin and English after the Linnaean system...
London, printed by T. Bensley and published by the author, 1797 (-1815). 10 volumes. 4to (265 x 210mm), with 10 engraved titles and 664 (many folde...
EUR 28,000