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A beautiful uniformly bound copy of the only major Prussian flora
DIETRICH, A.
Flora Regni Borussici. Flora des Königreichs Preussen oder Abbildungen und Beschreibung der in Preussen wildwachsenden Pflanzen.
Berlin, L. Oehmigke, 1833-1844. 12 volumes. Royal-8vo (255 x 165mm). With 864 fine handcoloured lithographed plates and descriptive text. Contempor...
EUR 18,500
MORIS, J. & NOTARIS, DE. J.
Florula Caprariae sive enumeratio plantarum in insula Capraria vel sponte nascentium vel ad utilitatem Latius excultarum.
Torino, ex Typographia Regia, (1839). 4to (310 x 235mm). pp. 242, with 6 engraved plates. Later wrappers.
EUR 800
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
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
One of the rarest lepidopterological iconographies, published in 120 parts over a period of 25 years
FREYER, C.F.
Neuere Beiträge zur Schmetterlingskunde mit Abbildungen nach der Natur.
Augsburg, beim Verfasser/ in Kommission bei der C. Kollmann'schen Buchhandlung/ in Kommission bei der Matth. Rieger'schen Buchhandlung, (1827) 1833...
EUR 23,000
the most beautiful miniature entomological work ever published
PANZER, G.W.
Faunae Insectorum Germanicae Initia oder Deutschlands Insecten.
Nürnberg, in der Felseckerschen Buchhandlung, 1793-1799. parts 1-67 (of 110), bound in 17 volumes. Oblong small-8vo (120 x 95mm). With 1 allegoric...
EUR 6,000
CASSONE, F.
Flora Medico-Farmaceutica compilata dal dottore in medicina e chirurgia Felice Cassone.
Torino, Tipografia di Giuseppe Cassone, 1847-1852. 6 volumes. Royal-8vo (230 x 150mm). pp. xxxv, 364; 391; 392; 383; 414; 394, with 600 fine handco...
EUR 5,000
the first modern work on tropical fauna
RUMPHIUS, G.E.
Thesaurus imaginum Piscium Testaceorum; Quales sunt Cancri, Echini, Echinometra, Stellae Marinae,&c. ut et Conchlearum...
Hagae, P. de Hondt, 1739. Folio (400 x 245mm). pp. (4), 14, 8, with engraved title, engraved portrait of Rumphius and 60 engraved plates. Contempor...
EUR 4,500
KLEYNHOFF, C.F.
Bedenkingen over het einde, waartoe de Insecten vermoedelyk geschapen zyn. Voorgedraagen in de Maatschappy Felix Meritis.
Amsterdam, P.J. Uylenbroek, 1805. 8vo (217 x 130mm). pp. (6), 300, (12), with 1 engraved plate. Contemporary half calf, spine with red gilt lettere...
EUR 500
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 (415 x 305mm). pp. (4), 1-41 (of 59); 26, with 30 (23 finely hand-coloured) lithographed plates. Disbou...
EUR 6,500
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
Monumental work on the European avifauna
DRESSER, H.E.
A history of the birds of Europe, including all the species inhabiting the western palaearctic region.
London, published by the author, 1871-1896. 9 volumes (including the supplement). Large-4to (315 x 245mm). With 723 (721 handcoloured) lithographic...
EUR 17,000
interesting association copy with a warm and highly charming dedication from the author to his son
CASEMBROOT, F. DE.
De Medusa in de Wateren van Japan, in 1863 en 1864.
s'Gravenhage, de gebroeders van Cleef, 1865. 8vo (220 x 135mm). pp. xii, (2), 150, with 5 folded coloured maps. Contemporary half red calf, gilt l...
EUR 11,000