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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
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
A superbly bound large paper copy
LISTER, M.
Historiae sive synopsis methodicae Conchyliorum et tabularum anatomicarum.
Editio altera. Oxonii, typogr. Clarendoniano, 1770. 4 parts & appendix (bound in 1 volume). Folio (365 x 245mm). pp. iv, (4), 12, 77, 6, 7, with 43...
EUR 28,000