Your shopping cart
This page displays the books in your shopping cart.
When you have finished shopping, click on the Proceed to checkout > button at the bottom of this page.
OS, G.J.J. VAN.
Still life with a variety of flowers.
Watercolour, 315 x 250mm., signed 'G.J.J. Van Os f ', in ink in left lower corner, framed.
EUR 3,600
A classic description of the anatomy of the elephant
CAMPER, P.
Description anatomique d'un éléphant mâle.
Publiée par son fils, A.G. Camper. Paris, H.J. Jansen, 1802. Folio (530 x 350mm). pp. xii, 108, with engraved portrait (of P. Camper) and 20 engra...
EUR 1,500
complete set of the most important and beautiful British pomological journal
TRANSACTIONS OF THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.
First series, volumes 1-7 (all published). London, W. Bulmer/ W. Nicol, 1812-1830. [and] Second series, volumes 1-3 (all published).
London, W. Nicol, 1835-1848. 10 volumes. 4to (282 x 220mm). With 7 engraved titles and 176 engravedplates of which 93 (some double-page) superbly h...
EUR 13,000
the most beautiful flora of the Netherlands
KOPS, J.
Flora Batava, afgebeeld door en van wegens J.C. Sepp en zoon; beschreven door Jan Kops.
Amsterdam, Leiden, Haarlem, s'Gravenhage, J.C. Sepp en Zoon, and others, (1800)-1920. Volumes 1-25 (of 28) & 1 index volume. 4to (295 x 240mm). Wit...
EUR 18,500
the most beautifully coloured issue of one of the most attractive huntingbooks ever published
STRADANUS, J. (JAN VAN DER STRAAT).
Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium. Pugnae Bestiarorum: & mutae Bestiarum, depictae a Ioanne Stradano: Editae per Nicolaum Visscher cum previlegio ordinum Hollandiae et West-Frisiae. Iachten van Wilde Beesten, Vogelen en Visschen, Midtsgaders Stryden van Menschen tegens Beesten, en Beesten tegens malkander.
(Londen c. 1817). Oblong 4to (255 x 360mm). With fine hand-coloured engraved frontispiece and 102 beautifully hand-coloured engraved plates. (Toget...
EUR 16,000
The work is considered the rarest of the botanical works published in Belgium in the 19th century
VERSCHAFFELT, A.
Nouvelle Iconographie des Camellias, contenant les figures et la description des plus rares, des plus nouvelles et des plus belles variétés de ce genre.
Gand, Verschaffelt, 1848-1860. 13 volumes. Royal-8vo (265 x 175mm). With 623 chromolithographed plates. Contemporary blue half morocco, spines with...
EUR 28,000
Perhaps the most impressive French botanical book of the period
REGNAULT, N.F.
La Botanique mise à la portée de tout le monde ou collection des plantes d'usage dans la médecine, dans les alimens et dans les arts.
Avec des notices instructives pulsées dans les auteurs les plus célèbres, contenant la description,le climât, la culture, les propriétés et l...
EUR 28,000
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
The beautifully drawn watercolour drawings of caterpillars are of a superb quality
[RÉMOND].
Entomological archives, manuscripts and watercolours of the 18th and early 19th century, from the Rémond family, of Semur en Auxois (Burgundy). The authors are Louis Rémond, physician at Semur during the 18th century, F.M. Rémond likewise physician and author of 'Avis aux pères et aux mères sur la vaccine', Dyon & Semur 1818, and his son Maurice Rémond, lawyer at Semur. The greater part of the collection concerns the latter two who both were keen entomologists. The main objects in the collection are 125 watercolour drawings of caterpillars and their cocoons and a full translation into French of Roesel von Rosenhof's 'Der monatlich-herausgegebenen Insecten-Belustigungen'.
EUR 35,000
one of the most famous scientific expeditions in history
DARWIN, C. & R. FITZROY.
Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836, describing their Examination of the Southern Shores and SouthAmerica and the Beagle's Circumnavigation of the Globe.
London, Henry Colburn, 1839. 3 vols in 4 (vol. 2 having a separate Appendix). 8vo (225 x 150 mm). pp. xxviii, (iv), 597; xiv, (2), 694, (2); viii, ...
EUR 35,000
KERNER, J.S.
Abbildung aller Oekonomischen Pflanzen. Siebenter Band.
Stuttgart, gedruckt in der Herzoglichen Buchdrukerei, 1794. 4to (290 x 235mm). With hand-coloured engraved title vignette and 100 fine hand-coloure...
EUR 1,000
A very unusual long botanical scroll, showing 62 different species, each depiction of a plant
PLANTS OF WESTERN JAPAN.
(Chûshoto okonomi no bunezu). Japanese exceptionally long horizontal painted scroll (11.5 meters by 26 cm.) showing 62 species of plants of Western Japan.
End 18th or beginning 19th century. Colour painted on mulberry paper, with Japanese calligraphy, mounted on a wooden roller, endpaper decorated wit...
EUR 28,000
perhaps the most renowned and sought-after of all orchid books
BATEMAN, J.
The Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala.
London, J. Richway & Sons. (1837)- 1843. Elephant folio (740 x 525 mm). One-page subscriber's list,addenda and corrigenda slip bound at back, litho...
EUR 75,000
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 most splendid monograph ever made on this group of animals (Cats, Lions, Pumas, Tigers, Panthers)
ELLIOT, D.G.
A Monograph of the Felidae or Family of Cats.
London, by the Author, (1878-) 1883. Large folio (597 x 477mm). With 43 splendid handcoloured lithographed plates from drawings by Joseph Wolf and ...
EUR 95,000