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GRAY, J.E. Synopsis Reptilium; or short descriptions of the species of reptiles. Part I. Cataphracta. Tortoises, Crocodiles and Enaliosaurians.

London, Treuttel, Wurtz, and Co., 1831. 8vo. pp. 85, with 11 plates. Disbound.

EUR 500

important book dealing with the history of zoological illustration through the centuries

NISSEN, C. Tierbücher aus fünf Jahrhunderten.

Muenchen 1968. 4to. pp. 108, (1), with frontispiece. Publisher's printed wrappers (together with:) Sixty original plates (many handcoloured) from G...

EUR 2,500

French artists such as Jaume St. Hilaire, Bessa, Turpin and Redouté rose almost immediately to world pre-eminence

JAUME SAINT-HILAIRE, J.H. La Flore et la Pomone Françaises, ou histoire et figure en couleur, des fleurs et des fruits de France ou naturalisés sur le sol français.

Paris, chez l'auteur, 1828 (-1835). 4 volumes. Royal-8vo (260 x 170mm). With 540 (of 544) fine engraved plates printed in colours with handfinishin...

EUR 5,800

Every shell, as far as possible, has been drawn from Nature, and generally from the largest and most beautiful specimens

BROWN, T. Illustrations of the recent Conchology of Great Britain and Ireland, with the description and localities of all the species, marine, land, and fresh-water.

Second edition, greatly enlarged. London, Smith, Elder, and Co., (1844). Folio (315 x 255mm). pp. xiii, (1), 144, with 62 hand-coloured engraved pl...

EUR 1,500