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The small 12mo edition of Bloch's famous folio work on fishes, the most sumptuous and beautifully produced work on the subject

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 (370 x 305mm). pp. (4), 59; 26, with 30 (23 finely hand-coloured) lithographed plates. Later blue cloth...

EUR 7,500

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

PAULET, J.J. Iconographie des Champignons de Paulet. Recueil de 217 planches... Par J.H. Léveillé.

Paris, chez J.B. Baillière, 1855. Folio (355 x 273mm). 54 fine hand-coloured engraved plates of 247. Loose in old wrappers.

EUR 500

The delicately handcoloured plates depict 299 insects

NATURGESCHICHTE DER GIFTPFLANZEN, die in der Oesterreichischen Pharmakopie officinäl sind. Mit einem Anhang von den noch über diess in den andern Deutschen Officinen vorgeschriebenen oder sonst vorzüglich

kennenswürdigen Giftpflanzen und Giftschwämmen... Bearbeitet und herausgegeben von einer Gesellschaft von Ärzten und Kräuterkennern. Wien, Reil...

EUR 1,600

BROOKES, S. An introduction to the study of Conchology: including observations on the Linnaean genera, and on the arrangement of M. Lamarck; a glossary, and a table of English names.

London, printed for J. & A. Arch, 1815. 4to (267 x 210mm). pp. vii, (1), 164, with 11 (9 handcoloured) engraved plates. Contemporary calf, richly g...

EUR 900

MIQUEL, F.A.W. De Noord-Nederlandsche vergiftige gewassen.

Amsterdam, C.G. Sulpke, 1836. 8vo (218 x 215mm). pp. 198, with 30 fine handcoloured lithographed plates. Publisher's printed boards (spine slightly...

EUR 900

DISTANT, W.L. A monograph of oriental Cicadidae. Published by order of the trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta.

London, King & Co/ Calcutta, Indian Museum, 1889-1892. 7 parts. Large-4to. pp. 157, (1), ix, (5), with 15 partly handcoloured lithographed plates. ...

EUR 1,300