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Many plates show zoological matter such as shells, fishes, an octopus, crocodiles, insects as well as plants, exotic fruit and sceneries
DESCOURTILZ, M.E.
Voyages d'un Naturaliste, et ses observations. Faites sur les trois règnes de la Nature, dans plusieurs ports de mer français, en Espagne, au continent de l'Amerique septentrionale, à Saint-Yago de Cuba, et à St.-Domingue, où l'Auteur devenu le prisonnier de 40,000 Noirs révoltés, et par suite mis en liberté par une colonne de l'armée française, donne des détails circonstanciés sur l'expédition du général Leclerc. Dédiés à ... le Comte de Lacépède.
Paris, Dufart, 1809. 3 volumes. 8vo (220 x 135mm). pp. lxiv, 17-365; (4), 470; x, 11-476, with 43 stipple engraved plates (including frontispieces ...
EUR 3,900
FISCHER, P. & GOSSE, H.
Études sur les Mollusques Terrestres et Fluviatiles du Mexique et du Guatamala.
Paris (1870-) 1902. 4to. Only 28 (of 46) plates of which 22 beautifully handcoloured. Recent blue half calf, richly decorated spine.
EUR 450
La faune malacologique du Mexique et du Guatemala est une des plus intéressantes de l'Amérique
FISCHER, P. & GOSSE, H.
Études sur les Mollusques Terrestres et Fluviatiles du Mexique et du Guatemala.
Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, (1870)-1902. 3 volumes (2 text vols & atlas). Folio (345 x 255mm). pp.(4), 702; pp. (6), 731; pp. (6), with 72 lithogr...
EUR 6,500
he spent more than ten years in South America, partly in company with the famous A.R. Wallace
GODMAN, F. DU CANE & SALVIN, O.
Biologia Centrali-Americana, or contribution to the knowledge of the Fauna and Flora of Mexico and Central America: COLEOPTERA by H.W. Bates, D. Sharp and others.
London 1881-1911. 7 volumes bound in 18. 4to (305 x 245mm). pp. x, 316; xv, 824; xii, 717; xii, 432; xv, 690; xii, 372; xxxiv, 572; x, 494; vi, 354...
EUR 7,000
early descriptions of birds from the West Indies and the northern parts of South America
JACQUIN, J.F. (Baron von).
Beyträge zur Geschichte der Vögel.
Wien, C.F. Wappler, 1784. 4to (285 x 230mm). pp. (10), 45, (1), with 19 handcoloured engraved plates. 19th century cloth-backed marbled boards (spi...
EUR 4,500
A sumptuous monograph of the birds of Central America
SALVIN, O. & DU CANE GODMAN, F.
Biologia Centrali-Americana. AVES.
(London) 1879-1904. 4 volumes. 4to (310 x 255mm). pp. xliv, 512; (4), 598; iv, 510; vii, with 84 fine hand-coloured lithographed plates after J.C. ...
EUR 15,000
SCHLECHTER, R.
Beiträge zur Orchideenkunde von Zentralamerika. I: Orchidaceae Powellianae Panamenses. II: Additamenta ad Orchideologiam Costaricensem.
Dahlem bei Berlin, Verlag des Repertoriums, 1922-1923. 2 volumes. 8vo. pp. 95; 307. Publisher's printed wrappers.
EUR 250
only 100 copies were printed
WOOLWARD, F.H.
The genus Masdevallia.
Issued by the Marquess of Lothian, K.T., chiefly from plants in his collection of orchids at Newbattle Abbey. With additional notes by F.C. Lehmann...
EUR 11,000
only 100 copies were printed
WOOLWARD, F.H.
The genus Masdevallia.
Issued by the Marquess of Lothian, K.T., chiefly from plants in his collection of orchids at Newbattle Abbey. With additional notes by F.C. Lehmann...
EUR 11,000