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one of the most attractive works on Geraniums

SWEET, R. Geraniaceae. The natural order of Gerania, illustrated by coloured figures and descriptions; comprising the numerous and beautiful mule-varieties cultivated in the gardens ofGreat Britain, with directions for their treatment.

London, J. Ridgway, 1820-1830. 5 volumes (235 x 145mm). With 500 hand-coloured engraved plates. Contemporary brown diced calf, rebacked spines with...

EUR 12,000

SCHRANK, F. VON PAULA (VON). Baiersche Flora.

Muenchen, J.B. Strobl, 1789. 2 volumes. 8vo. pp. (2), 753; 670, (34), with 1 engraved frontispiece and 2 engraved title-vignettes. Contemporary boa...

EUR 1,400

REICHENBACH, H.G.L. Icones florae Germanicae et Helveticae, simul Pedemontanae ... Deutschlands Flora mit höchst naturgetreuen, characteristischen Abbildungen ... 2. Auflage.

Band XII. Leipzig, F. Hofmeister, 1850. 4to. Atlas with 100 handcoloured engraved plates. Original gilt- and black-stamped pictorial green cloth.

EUR 300

GERVAIS, P. Zoologie et Paléontologie Françaises.

Nouvelles recherches sur les Animaux Vertébres dont on trouve les ossements enfouis dans le sol de la France et sur leur comparaison avec les espÃ...

EUR 400

First German translation of 'Skånska Resa' published in 1751

LINNAEUS, C. Reisen durch das Königreich Schweden, welche auf Befehl der hohen Obrigkeit zur Verbesserung der Naturkunde, Haushaltungs- und Arzneykunst von ihm angestellt.... Aus dem Schwedischen übersetzt.

Leipzig, G. Kiesewetter, 1756. 8vo (202 x 120mm). pp. (32), 336, with 1 large folded engraved map 'Charta über das Herzogthum Schonen' and 2 engra...

EUR 1,000

KLUG, F. Entomologische Monographieen.

Berlin, G. Reimer, 1824. 8vo (205 x 120mm). pp. xiv, 242, with 10 hand-coloured engraved plates. Later half calf, gilt lettered spine.

EUR 950

A fine copy of one of the most attractive shell books ever produced

MARTYN, T. Figures of non-descript Shells collected in the different Voyages to the South Seas since the year 1764 ... [Vols. I and II:] The Universal Conchologist, exhibiting the Figure of every known Shell, accurately drawn and painted after Nature: with a new systematic arrangement by the Author... [Vols. III and IV:].

London, sold at his house no. 16 Great Marlborough Street, [1784-] 1789 [-1812]. 4 volumes. 4to (335 x 273mm), vol. I with engraved frontispiece of...

EUR 88,000

The genus 'Turtonia' was named in his honour

TURTON, W. Conchylia Insularum Britanicarum.

The Shells of the British Islands, systematically arranged. London, M.A. Nattali, (1822). 4to. pp. xlvii, (1), 279, (1), with 20 handcoloured engra...

EUR 1,000

Total price: EUR 105,050
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