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A masterwork what botany in the Dutch speaking countries is concerned
DODONAEUS, R.
Cruydt-Boeck ... volgens sijne laetste verbeteringe: Met Biivoegsels achter elck Capittel, vvt verscheyden Cruydtbeschryvers: Item in't laetste een Beschrijvinge vande Indiaensche Gewassen, meest getrocken wt de schriften van Carolus Clvsivs.
Leyden, inde Plantijnsche Druckerije van F. van Ravelingen, 1618. Folio (350 x 215mm). pp. (32), 1495, (56), with engraved pictorial title and 1470...
EUR 7,500
The drawings? are also admirable, and from a botanical point of view beyond praise
JORDAN, A. & J. FOURREAU.
Icones ad floram Europae novo fundamento instaurandam spectantes.
Paris, Savy, 1866-1903. 3 volumes. Folio (400 x 305mm). With 501 finely hand-coloured engraved plates. Contemporary uniform half calf, spines in 5 ...
EUR 15,000
one of the finest examples of French colour-printing by Langlois
FÉRUSSAC, A. DE. & DESHAYES, G.P.
Histoire Naturelle générale et particulière des Mollusques Terrestres et Fluviatiles ...
Paris, J.B. Baillière, 1820-1851. 4 volumes. Folio (430 x 300mm). pp. viii, 402; (4), xvi, 1-184 (60 pages of 96 bis), 260, 22 (explication des pl...
EUR 22,000
one of the finest examples of French colour-printing by Langlois
FÉRUSSAC, A. DE. & DESHAYES, G.P.
Histoire Naturelle générale et particulière des Mollusques Terrestres et Fluviatiles ...
Paris, J.B. Baillière, 1820-1851. 4 volumes. Folio (420 x 275mm). With 248 engraved plates, almost all printed in colours and finished by hand. Re...
EUR 15,500
he made here an attempt to an explanation of the parts of the plants.
DODONAEUS, R.
Stirpium Historia pemptades sex, sive libri XXX ...
Antverpiae, ex Officina Plantiniana, apud B. & I. Moretos, 1616. Folio (346 x 230mm). pp. (16), 872, (66), with fine engraved title and 1341 woodcu...
EUR 5,500
In all fairness, it must be added that each species treated... was skillfully and fully described, and Bergeret's illustrations were exceptionally good
BERGERET, J.P.
Phytonomatotechnie Universelle, c'est-à-dire, l'art de donner aux plantes des noms tirés de leurs caractères; nouveau systême au moyen duquel on peut de soi-même, sans le secours d'aucun livre, nommer toutes les plantes qui croissent sur la surface de notre globe.
Paris, chez l'auteur/ Didot le jeune/ Poisson, 1783-1784 (-1786). 3 volumes in 26 (of 27) parts. Folio (420 x 275mm). With 310 (of 320) fine handco...
EUR 7,000
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
The original drawings for the present work were done by native artists
HOOKER, J.D.
Illustrations of Himalayan plants.
London, L. Reeve, 1855. Folio (508 x 380mm). With 1 pictorial handcoloured lithographed title and 24 handcoloured lithographed plates, each with an...
EUR 19,000
Printed for private circulation only
ES, N.J.A.P.H. VAN.
De hippische sport en het Korps Rijdende Artillerie 1793-1908, I: DE VALKERIJ. Met illustratiën van Hoynck van Papendrecht, Krabbé, Staring en van Es en ornamentatie van Colenbrander en Roskam.
Arnhem, Coers & Roest - G.J. Thieme, (1908). Folio (370 x 290mm). pp. (16), 172, (18), with 45 plates of which 34 beautifully handcoloured, many of...
EUR 9,000
Nissen in his publication 'Die botanische Buchillustration' speaks highly of him 'seine Tafeln... verdienen volles Lob'.
DREVES, J.F. & HAYNE, F.G.
Choix de Plantes d'Europe, décrites et dessinées d'après nature.
Leipzig, Voss et Compagnie, 1802. 5 volumes. 4to (295 x 230mm). pp. xii, 40; xii, 44; xii, 44; xii,40; x, 38, with 125 fine hand-coloured engraved ...
EUR 4,200
P.F. Dejean was called 'the first great coleopterist'
DEJEAN, P.F. & BOISDUVAL, J.A.
Iconographie et histoire naturelle des Coléoptères d'Europe.
Paris, Méquignon-Marvis, 1829-1836 (-1838). 5 volumes. 8vo (230 x 150mm). pp. xiv, 400; 407, (1); 326; 486; 415, (1), with 270 handcoloured engrav...
EUR 3,500
showing among others two splendid early woodcuts of a camel and a dromedary as well a rhinoceros, copying Durer's famous woodcut of 1515
ALDROVANDI, U.
Quadrupedum omnium bisulcorum historia ...
Bononiae, I. Baptista Ferronius, 1642. Folio (340 x 230mm). pp. (6), 1040, (12), with engraved allegorical title-page and 89 (some full-page) woodc...
EUR 3,900
Dalechamp is considered by some authorities to have been one of the most erudite of the French botanists of the 16th century
DALECHAMPS, J.
Histoire générale des plantes, contenant XVIII livres également départis en deux tomes: Tirée de l'exemplaire latin de la bibliothèque de M. Jacques Dalechamps, puis faite françoise par M. Jean Des Moulins... Dernière édition corrigée...
Lyon, P. Borde, L. Arnaud & C. Rigaud. 1653. 2 volumes. Folio (360 x 235mm). pp. (8), 960, (36); (120), 758, (30), with 2752 woodcuts. Contemporar...
EUR 4,900
rare suite of very beautiful bouquets in ornamental vases with grotesques
MESSAGER, J. (ca. 1580 - Paris - 1649) & PICQUET, J. (Troyes ca. 1600 - ca. 1650 Paris).
Series of six copper engravings of floral bouquets in vases.
[Paris, 1620s]. 245 x 175 mm. Half calf, gilt spine with floral ornaments and red gilt lettered label, marbled boards.
EUR 8,400
one of the finest works on fishing and fisheries in any language
DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU, H.L. & DE LA MARRE, L.H.
Traité Général des Pesches, et histoire des Poissons qu'elles fournissent, tant pour la subsistance des hommes, que pour plusieurs autres usages qui ont rapport aux arts et au commerce.
Paris, Saillant & Nyon/ Desaint, 1769-1782. 4 volumes bound in 12. Folio (445 x 290mm). With 250 folding engraved plates. Later half calf, gilt orn...
EUR 18,000