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one of the finest examples of French colour-printing by Langlois
FÉRUSSAC, A. DE. & DESHAYES, G.P.
Histoire Naturelle générale et particulière des Mollusques Terrestres et Fluviatiles ...
Paris, J.B. Baillière, 1820-1851. 4 volumes. Folio (420 x 275mm). With 248 engraved plates, almost all printed in colours and finished by hand. Re...
EUR 15,500
SCHLECHTER, R.
Orchidaceae Perrierianae. Ein Beitrag zur Orchideenkunde der Insel Madagascar.
Dahlem bei Berlin, Verlag des Repertoriums, 1925. 8vo. pp. 391. Publisher's printed wrappers.
EUR 250
SIMON, E.
Histoire Naturelle des Araignées (Aranéides).
Paris, Roret, 1864. 8vo (225 x 135mm). pp. (4), 540, with 207 figures in the text. Contemporary half calf, gilt lettering on spine.
EUR 500
The delicately handcoloured plates depict 299 insects
BARBUT, J.
The Genera Insectorum of Linnaeus, exemplified by various specimens of English Insects drawn from nature./ Les Genres des Insectes de Linné; constatés par divers échantillonsd'Insects d'Angleterre copiés d'après nature.
Londres, J.Dixwell ..., 1781. 4to (280 x 225mm). pp. (4), xvii, (3), 371, (20), with 1 engraved frontispiece, 20 (1 folded) finely hand-coloured en...
EUR 1,000
LA CHAMBRE, (MARIN CUREAU DE).
Traité de la Connoissance des Animaux, où tout ce qui esté dict Pour, & Contre le Raisonnement des Bestes.
Paris, Pierre Rocolet, 1647. 4to (220 x 160mm). pp. (8), 390. Contemporary calf, richly gilt spine in 6 compartments with red gilt lettered label (...
EUR 2,800
CAMISOLA, G.
Flora Astese secondo il sistema sessuale di Linneo con cenni sulla virtu'di molte piante indigene impiegate in medicina non tanto sull' Astese che su altre provincie del Piemonte nascenti redatta ad uso del popolo.
Asti, dalla Tipografia dei Fratelli Paglieri, 1854. 8vo (209 x 130 mm). pp. 488. Contemporary green half calf, gilt decorated spine.
EUR 800
The fine plates show marine animals of the Adriatic sea such as shells and crustacean
PLANCUS, J.
De Conchis minus notis liber. Cui accessit Specimen aestus reciproci maris superi ad littus portumque Arimini. Editio altera duplici appendice aucta.
Romae, in aedibus Palladis, 1760. 4to (273 x 205mm). pp. 136, with engraved title-vignette and 24 engraved plates. Contemporary green vellum, spine...
EUR 1,900
interesting association copy with a warm and highly charming dedication from the author to his son
CASEMBROOT, F. DE.
De Medusa in de Wateren van Japan, in 1863 en 1864.
s'Gravenhage, de gebroeders van Cleef, 1865. 8vo (220 x 135mm). pp. xii, (2), 150, with 5 folded coloured maps. Contemporary half red calf, gilt l...
EUR 11,000
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
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
CUVIER, G.L.
Tableau élémentaire de l'histoire naturelle des animaux.
Paris, Baudouin, An 6 (1798). 8vo (200 x 125mm). pp. xvi, 710, with 14 engraved plates. Contemporary half calf (part of head of spine missing).
EUR 700
The work describes the rodents of Russia and Siberia
PALLAS, P.S.
Novae Species Quadrupedum e glirium ordine cum illustrationibus variis complurium ex hoc ordine animalium.
Erlangen, Walther, 1778. 4to (245 x 200mm). pp. (2), viii, 388 with 39 (3 folding anatomical) engraved plates. Recent half calf, gilt lettered spine.
EUR 1,800
The plates of the present work are all engraved by Garsault
GARSAULT, F.A.P. DE.
Description, Vertus et Usages de sept cents dix-neuf Plantes, tant étrangères que de nos climats; et de cent trente-quatre animaux, en sept cents trente planches. Gravées en taille-douce, sur les desseins d'après nature, de M. de Garsault, par MM. de Fehrt, Prevost, Duflos, Martinet, &cc. Et rangées suivant l'ordre du livre intitulé Matière Médicale de M. Geoffroy. Ouvrage utile à toutes Matières Médicales, aux Artistes, aux Personnes charitables, & à tous ceux qui préparent eux-mêmes leurs Médicaments.
Paris, P. Fr. Didot Le Jeune, 1767. 6 volumes. 8vo (215 x 140 mm). pp. xiv, (2), 472, 20, with 3 engraved titles and 729 engraved plates. Contempor...
EUR 4,500
AUDINET SERVILLE, (J.G.)
Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. ORTHOPTÈRES.
Paris, Roret, 1839. 8vo (205 x 125mm.). pp. xviii, 776, (2), 4, with 14 engraved plates of which 13hand-coloured. Recent black half morocco, spine ...
EUR 450
The impressive 'Flora Londinensis' is much more comprehensive in scope than its title suggests, for it embraces most of the English flora
CURTIS, W.
Flora Londinensis: containing a history of the Plants indigenous to Great Britain, illustrated by figures of the natural size.
A new edition, enlarged by George Graves and William Jackson Hooker. London, Henry G. Bohn, [1817-]1835. 5 volumes. Large-folio (481 x 290mm). With...
EUR 15,000
great classic of American botany
MICHAUX, A.
Histoire des Chênes de l'Amérique, ou descriptions et figures de toutes les espèces et variétés de Chênes de l'Amérique Septentrionale, considérées sous les rapports de la Botanique, de leur culture et de leur usage.
Paris, de l'imprimerie de Crapelet, An IX-1801. Folio (415 x 300mm). pp. (4), (56), with 36 engraved plates. Contemporary half green morocco, gilt ...
EUR 9,000
rightly famous for its large decorative plates showing flowers only
MCDONALD, A.
A Complete Dictionary of Practical Gardening: comprehending all the modern improvements in the art; whether in the raising of the various esculent vegetables, or in the forcing and managing of different sorts of fruits and plants ... from original drawings by Sydenham Edwards.
London, G. Kearsley, 1807. 2 volumes. 4to (265 x 205mm). With 61 beautifully handcoloured engraved plates and 13 engraved plates of instruments etc...
EUR 4,200
BERTOLONI, A.
Amoenitates Italicae sistentes opuscula ad rem herbariam et zoologiam Italiae spectantia.
Bononiae, typis Annesii de Nobilibus, 1819. 4to (262 x 205mm). pp. (6), 472, with 6 engraved plates. Contemporary half vellum, marbled sides.
EUR 1,300
it contains descriptions and plates of many of the best garden Rhododendron species which can be grown in this country
HOOKER, J.
The Rhododendrons of Sikkim-Himalaya; being an account, botanical and geographical, of the Rhododendrons recently discovered in the mountains of Eastern Himalaya, from drawings and descriptions made on the spot, during a government botanical mission to that country ... Edited by Sir W.J. Hooker.
London, Reeve, Benham, and Reeve, 1849 (-1851). 3 parts (bound in one). Folio (490 x 380mm). With ahandcoloured vignette, showing the Himalayan mou...
EUR 15,500
Dealing exclusively with the Hymenoptera of the Ligurian region (Italy)
SPINOLA, M.
Insectorum Liguriae species novae aut rariores, quas in agro Ligustico nuper detexit, descripsit, et iconibus illustravit.
Genuae, Y. Gravier, 1806-1808. 4 parts (bound in one). 4to (240 x 185mm). pp. (4), xvii, 159, (1); (6), ii, 262, v, (1), with 1 folded table and 7 ...
EUR 2,300
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
DUMONT D'URVILLE, J.
Voyage de découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par ordre du Roi, pendant les années 1826-1829(:) BOISDUVAL, J.A. Faune entomologique de l'Océan Pacifique.
Paris, J. Tastu, 1832-1835. 2 parts (bound in 1 volume). Royal-8vo. pp. iv, 267; vii, (1), 716. Contemporary half calf (spine rubbed).
EUR 700
SWAMMERDAM, J.
Histoire Naturelle des Insectes traduite du Biblia Naturae de Jean Swammerdam.
Dijon, Desventes, 1758. 4to (265 x 205mm). pp. lx, 673, with 36 folded engraved plates. Recent halfcalf, gilt lettered spine.
EUR 950
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
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
The plates are finely coloured and show flowers, fruit, vegetables and green houses
GREEN, T.
The Universal Herbal; or, Botanical, Medical, and Agricultural Dictionary, containing an account of all the known plants in the world, arranged according to the Linnean system. Second
edition, revised and improved. London, Caxton Press, 1824 (-28). 2 volumes. 4to (260 x 206mm). pp. (4), 790; 885, 56, with 3 stipple-engraved handc...
EUR 2,000
un des livres les plus precieux pour la Flore d'Orient
JAUBERT, H.F. & SPACH, E.
Illustrationes Plantarum Orientalium.
Paris, Roret, 1842-1857. 5 volumes. Large-4to (350 x 260mm). With 500 engraved plates. Contemporaryhalf calf, spines with 2 black gilt lettered lab...
EUR 7,500
The folio edition of probably the most attractive work published on volcanology
FAUJAS DE SAINT-FOND, B.
Recherches sur les Volcans éteints du Vivarais et du Velay; avec un discours sur les volcans brûlans, des mémoires analytiques sur les Schorls, la Zéolite, le Basalte, la Pouzzolane, les Laves & les différentes substances qui s'y trouvent engagées, &c.
Grenoble, J. Cuchet, 1778. Folio (460 x 300 mm). pp. (4), xviii, (2), 460, with 1 engraved title-vignette, 2 engraved vignettes, 2 engraved initial...
EUR 3,800
highly finished watercolours of the fungi of the Loire valley
SÉJOURNÉ, A.
Champignons des environs de Blois.
Blois circa 1880. 2 volumes. Folio (360 x 270mm). A collection of 161 very fine watercolours of mushrooms of the Blois area (Loire valley). Loose i...
EUR 12,000
he made here an attempt to an explanation of the parts of the plants.
DODONAEUS, R.
Stirpium Historia pemptades sex, sive libri XXX ...
Antverpiae, ex Officina Plantiniana, apud B. & I. Moretos, 1616. Folio (346 x 230mm). pp. (16), 872, (66), with fine engraved title and 1341 woodcu...
EUR 5,500
It remained for 1800 years a most valuable and authoritative work on minerals
THEOPHRASTUS.
Traité des Pierres de Théophraste traduit du Grec; avec des notes physiques & critiques, traduites de l'Anglois de M. Hill. Auquel on a ajouté deux lettres du même auteur, l'une au Docteur Parsons, sur les couleurs du Saphir & de la Turquoise; & l'autre à M. Folkes, président de la Societé Royale de Londres, sur les effets des différens menstrues sur le cuivre.
Paris, J.T. Herissant, 1754. Small 8vo (157 x 97mm). pp. xxiv, 287. Contemporary half calf, ornamented spine with red gilt lettered label (spine sl...
EUR 1,600
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 (305 x 225mm). pp. xvii, 66, (2), with a splendid handcoloured engraved frontispiece heightene...
EUR 1,500
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
A rare early treatise on fruit trees, tree planting and crafting
MASCALL, L.
A booke of the Arte and maner how to Plant and Graffe all sortes of Trees, how to set Stones and sowe Pepins, to make wilde Trees to graffe on, as also remedies and Medicines...
London, John Wight, 1582. Small 4to (190 x 132mm). pp. (24), 84, (12), large woodcut on title, one plate of grafting tools, 6 woodcuts in the text ...
EUR 9,800
CURTUS, F.
Ad vivium exprimebat.
Bologna, Guiseppe Longhi and Franciscus Curtus, c.1644. Small folio (275 x 200mm). With engraved title within a garland of flowers and ribbons, 31 ...
EUR 18,000
(GODET, C.H.).
Les Plantes Vénéneuses du Canton de Neuchatel.
Neuchatel, Montandon Frères, 1864. Royal-8vo. pp. x, 59, (1), with 26 hand-coloured lithographed plates. Contemporary half cloth.
EUR 700
the most important work on fishes published in the 16th century
RONDELET, G.
La première (-seconde) partie de l'histoire entière des Poissons. Composée premierement en Latin... Avec leurs pourtraits au naïf.
Lion, M. Bonhome, 1558. 2 parts in one volume. Folio (278 x 203mm). pp. (12), 418, (14); pp.(4), 181, (1 blank), (10), with woodcut portrait of Ro...
EUR 7,900
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
PHIPPS, C.J.
Voyage au Pole Boréal, fait en 1773, par ordre du Roi d'Angleterre.
Paris, Saillant & Nyon/ Pissot, 1775. 4to (248 x 200mm). pp. xii, 259, (1), with 12 folded engravedplates and many folded tables. Contemporary mott...
EUR 950
LAMBERT, A. B.
An illustration of the genus Cinchona; comprising descriptions of all the officinal Peruvian barks, including several new species. Baron de Humboldt's account of the Cinchonaforests in South America: and Laubert's memoir on the different species of Quinquina. To which are added, several dissertations of Don Hippolito Ruiz, on various medical plants of South America. And a short account of the Spikenard of the ancients.
London, John Searle, 1821. 4to (290 x 235mm). pp. ix, (1, errate), 181 with 5 folded engraved plates. Recent black half calf, red gilt lettered lab...
EUR 1,500
In his works Fabricius described many Australian and New Zealand insects brought back by Captain Cook's around -the-world voyages
FABRICIUS, J.C.
Philosophia Entomologica sistens scientiae fundamenta adiectis definitionibus, exemplis, observationibus adumbrationibus.
Hamburgi et Kilonii, C.E. Bohnii, 1778. 8vo (192 x 115mm). pp. (12), 178, with title-vignette. Recent wrappers.
EUR 750
A complete set with the rare 6th volume by Ch. Aubé
DEJEAN, P.F.
Species général des Coléoptères, de la collection de M. le Comte Dejean.
Paris, chez Crevot/ Méquignon-Marvis, 1825-1838. 6 volumes (bound in 7). Royal-8vo (200 x 130mm). pp. xxx, 463; viii, 501; vii, 556; vii, 520; vii...
EUR 1,200
The edition is important as it describes numerous species from Cook's voyages
LINNAEUS, C.
Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae ... Editio decima tertia, aucta, reformata.
Cura Jo. Frid. Gmelin, Lipsiae, G.E. Beer, 1788-1793. 3 volumes (bound in 9). pp. (2), x, 1-500; (2), 501-1032; (2), 1033-1516; (2), 1517-2224; (2)...
EUR 2,500
In his works Fabricius described many Australian and New Zealand insects brought back by Captain Cook's around -the-world voyages.
FABRICIUS, J.C.
Mantissa Insectorum sistens eorum species nuper detectas adiectis characteribus, genericis, differentiis specificis, emendationibus, observationibus.
Hafniae, C.G. Proft, 1787. 2 volumes. 8vo (195 x 117mm). pp. xx, 382; pp. (2), 348. (Together with:) FABRICIUS, J.C. Philosophia Entomologica. Hamb...
EUR 1,200
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. Folio (320 x 200mm). With 440 hand-coloured engraved plates on 43...
EUR 16,000
issued in a very small edition only
CULOT, J.
Noctuelles et Géomètres d'Europe. Iconographie complète de toutes les espèces européennes.
Genève, Villa-Les-Iris, 1909-1920. 4 volumes. Royal-8vo (245 x 165mm). pp. (2), 220; (2), 243, (1);(2), 269, (3); (6), 167, (3), with 152 (151 han...
EUR 2,500
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
PUCCINELLO, B.
Synopsis Plantarum in agro Lucensi sponte nascentium.
Lucae, typis Bertinianis, 1841-1848. 2 parts bound in one. Royal-8vo (210 x 135 mm). pp. 531, xxxxix, with 14 lithographed plates. Contemporary gre...
EUR 1,100
STEPHENS, J.F.
Illustrations of British Entomology; or, a synopsis of indigenous insects: containing their generic and specific distinctions; with an account of their metamorphoses, times of appearance, localities, food, and economy, as far as practicable.
Haustellata (&) Mandibulata. London, Baldwin and Cradock/ Henry G.Bohn, 1827-1846. 12 volumes (including supplement), bound in 8. Royal-8vo (225 x ...
EUR 2,200
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
This contains a number of plates of beetles, some very splendid
MARTYN, T.
The English Entomologist, exhibiting all the Coleopterous Insects found in England; including upwards of 500 different Species, the Figures which have never before been givento the Public. The whole accurately drawn & painted after Nature, Arranged and named according to the Linnaean System./ Entomologist Anglois ouvrage où l'on a rassemblé tous les Insectes Coleoptères qui se trouvent en Angleterre et qui forment plus de 500 espèces différentes d'insectes...
London, His Academy for Illustrating and painting Natural History, 1792. Folio (345 x 272mm). pp. (8), 33, with 2 medallion engraved plates and 42 ...
EUR 2,200
