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SPINOLA, M.
Essai sur les insectes Hémiptères, Rhyngotes, ou Hétéroptères.
Paris, J.B. Baillière, 1840. 8vo (215 x 135mm). pp. 383, with 5 large folding tables. Recent cloth.
EUR 800
YARKAND MISSION- SCIENTIFIC RESULTS OF THE SECOND YARKAND MISSION;
based upon the collections and notes of the late F. Stoliczka. COLEOPTERA.
Calcutta, Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, 1890. Folio (360 x 255mm). pp. 79, with 2 lithographed plates. Publisher's printed w...
EUR 150
This is a very fine series of floral engravings in the style of Spaendonck, Redouté, Bessa, etc
PREVOST, B.L.
Principes et leçons de fleurs.
Paris, Demarteau l'ainé (after 1850). Small-folio (330 x 245mm). With 16 etchings printed in bistre, by Giles Demarteau after crayon drawings by P...
EUR 2,000
In all fairness, it must be added that each species treated... was skillfully and fully described, and Bergeret's illustrations were exceptionally good
BERGERET, J.P.
Phytonomatotechnie Universelle, c'est-à-dire, l'art de donner aux plantes des noms tirés de leurs caractères; nouveau systême au moyen duquel on peut de soi-même, sans le secours d'aucun livre, nommer toutes les plantes qui croissent sur la surface de notre globe.
Paris, chez l'auteur/ Didot le jeune/ Poisson, 1783-1784 (-1786). 3 volumes in 26 (of 27) parts. Folio (420 x 275mm). With 310 (of 320) fine handco...
EUR 7,000
The only other copy known is in the British Museum
NOVÆ FLORUM ICONES
Hujus generis atrium cultoribus perutiles, maximâ curâ deliniatæ, et tabulis æneis incisæ. Ex Officina Nicol: Visscher.
A series of 16 copper engravings, numbered lower right, 257 x 175 mm, within the borders c. 229 x 146 mm.
EUR 7,500
LATREILLE, P.A.
Insectes de l'Amérique Équinoxiale, recueillis pendant le voyage de MM. De Humboldt et Bonpland.
Paris, Schoell/ Smith, 1811-1833. Folio (345 x 260mm). pp. 127-252, with 8 fine handcoloured engraved plates; pp. 9-64 (of 138), with 4 (of 13) fin...
EUR 1,000
Most plates show Japanese people in costumes, the frontispiece in vol. 1 shows the bay of Nagasaki
POMPE VAN MEERDERVOORT, J.L.
Vijf jaren in Japan. (1857-1863). Bijdragen tot de kennis van het Japansche Keizerrijk en zijne bevolking.
Leiden, Van den Heuvell & Van Santen, 1867-1868. 2 volumes. 8vo (245 x 160mm). pp. xii, 335, (i); pp. vi, 357, (i), with 2 coloured frontispieces, ...
EUR 6,000
The present work is the rare first edition of the first syntax of the Dutch language printed in Japan
[MITSUKURI GENPO] SYNTAXIS OF WOORDVOEGING DER NEDERDUITSCHE TAAL,
Uitgegeven door de Maatschappij tot nut van 't algemeen.
Leyden, Deventer en Groningen, bij D. du Mortier en Zoon, a.o. 1810. [Oranda Bunten kohen sekuron. Edo, Kaei 1 (1848). 8vo (260 x 180mm). 49 leaves...
EUR 7,500
The attractive frontispiece by J. Goeree shows the portrait of Leeuwenhoek held by an angel
LEEUWENHOEK, A. VAN
Send-Brieven, zoo aan de hoog-edele Heeren van de Koninklyke Societeit te Londen, Als aan andere aansienelyke en geleerde lieden, over verscheyde Verborgentheden der Natuure,Namentlyk over het Wonderlyk Gestel van de Veselen der Spieren in veelderley Gedierte; De Pesen en derselver Werking; Verscheyde Zaden; 't Oog van een Walvis; 't Hair; De Dierkens aan het Eende-Kroost; ... &c.
Delft, Adriaan Beman, 1718. Small-4to (200 x 155mm). pp. (14), 460, (28), with 1 engraved frontispiece and 31 (12 folded) engraved plates. Contempo...
EUR 4,500
First edition
DARWIN, C.
The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom.
London, John Murray, 1876. 8vo (190 x 125mm). pp. viii, 482, 1 diagram and 109 tables. Publishers green cloth, gilt lettered spine (very slightly r...
EUR 1,500
CIRILLO, D.M.L.
De essentialibus nonnullarum plantarum characteribus commentarius.
Neapoli 1784. 8vo (205 x 135mm). pp. lxxv, (1), with 4 folded engraved plates. Recent boards.
EUR 750
Printed for private circulation only
ES, N.J.A.P.H. VAN.
De hippische sport en het Korps Rijdende Artillerie 1793-1908, I: DE VALKERIJ. Met illustratiën van Hoynck van Papendrecht, Krabbé, Staring en van Es en ornamentatie van Colenbrander en Roskam.
Arnhem, Coers & Roest - G.J. Thieme, (1908). Folio (370 x 290mm). pp. (16), 172, (18), with 45 plates of which 34 beautifully handcoloured, many of...
EUR 9,000
CHENU, J.C.
Manuel de Conchyliologie et de Paléontologie Conchyliologique.
Paris, Masson, 1859-1862. 2 volumes. Royal-8vo. pp. vii, 508, with 3707 (some coloured) figures; pp. (6), 327, with 1236 figures. Recent black half...
EUR 450
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
KIRBY, W,F.
Catalogue of the collection of diurnal Lepidoptera formed by the late W.C. Hewitson and bequeathed by him to the British Museum.
London, John van Voorst, 1879. 4to (273 x 215mm). pp.iv, 246. Contemporary black calf, gilt ornamented and lettered spine.
EUR 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.
Systema Rhyngotorum secundum ordines, genera, species adiectis synonymis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus.
Brunsvigae, C. Reichard, 1803. 8vo (200 x 130mm). pp. x, 21, 314, (2). Contemporary marbled boards,spine with red gilt lettered label.
EUR 500
MULSANT, E.
Opuscules Entomologiques.
Paris 1852-1875. Volumes 1-4, 7-16 (bound in 4). Royal-8vo (230 x 155mm). pp. 2759, with 12 portraits and 12 plates. Recent brown cloth.
EUR 800
GRAY, G.R.
A fasciculus of the Birds of China.
(London, Taylor and Francis, 1871). Folio (308 x 240 mm). pp. 8, with 12 handcoloured lithographed plates. New brown half morocco, spine with gilt ...
EUR 1,000
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
a rare privately printed flower book
GLEADALL, E. E.
The Beauties of Flora with botanic and poetic illustrations, being a selection of flowers drawn from nature, arranged emblematically with directions for colouring them.
Heath Hall near Wakefield, E.E. Gleadall, 1834-36. 2 volumes. 4to (335 x 250mm). With 2 hand-coloured lithographed titles and 41 hand-coloured lith...
EUR 7,000
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
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
valuable contribution to the avifauna of Polynesia
FINSCH, O. & HARTLAUB, G.
Beitrag zur Fauna Centralpolynesiens. Ornithologie der Viti-, Samoa- und Tonga- Inseln.
Halle, H.W. Schmidt, 1867. 8vo (250 x 165 mm). pp. xxxix, (1), 290, with 14 handcoloured lithographed plates. Recent cloth, gilt lettered spine.
EUR 600
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
The rare 4to issue printed on 'Velin'.
JAUME SAINT-HILAIRE, J.H.
La Flore et la Pomone Françaises, ou histoire et figure en couleur, des fleurs et des fruits de France ou naturalisés sur le sol français.
Paris, chez l'auteur, 1828-1833 (-1835). 5 volumes. 4to (270 x 210mm). With 544 fine engraved plates by the author, printed in colours with hand-fi...
EUR 6,500
rare French edition of Seitz' 'Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde'
SEITZ, A.
Les Macrolépidoptères du Globe. Révision systématique des Macrolépidoptères connus jusqu' à ce jour.
Stuttgart, Kernen, 1911-1945. 20 volumes (bound in 27). Large 4to (320 x 248mm). With 1364 chromo-lithographed plates. 21 volumes uniformly bound i...
EUR 7,500