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First edition of this beautiful work on the Flora of Switzerland
HALLER, A. VON.
Historia Stirpium Indigenarum Helvetiae inchoata.
Bernae, Societatis Typographicae, 1768. 3 volumes (bound in 2). Folio. (I:) pp. (4), lxiv, 444, with engraved title vignette and engraved plates 1-...
EUR 4,000
Mit viel Vergnügen habe ich die herrlichen Abbildungen des Herrn A. Harzer gesehen
HARZER, C.A.F.
Naturgetreue Abbildungen der vorzüglichsten essbaren, giftigen und verdächtigen Pilze, mit besonderer Rücksicht auf die verschiedenen Altersstufen von der ersten Entwickelungbis zum ausgebildeten Wachsthume.
Dresden, Adler & Dietze, 1842-45. 4to (304 x 230mm). pp. x, (2, register), 136, with 1 plain and 80handcoloured lithographed plates. Contemporary g...
EUR 3,600
HASSHU GAFU.
[Collection of Eight Ming Picture Albums] Toshi Gogon, Baichiku Rangiku, Mokuhon Kacho, Sohon Kashi, Kokon Gafu, Meiko Senfu, Toshi Rokugon, Toshi Shichigon.
Kyoto, Nakagawa Mohee, 1710. 8 volumes. 8vo (282 x 195mm). With 421 full-page woodblock illustrations of which 213 are related to natural history. ...
EUR 20,000
One of the finest German works on medical plants
HAYNE, F.G.
Getreue Darstellung und Beschreibung der in der Arzneykunde gebräuchlichen Gewächse, wie auch solcher, welche mit ihnen verwechselt werden können.
Berlin, auf Kosten des Verfassers (& Nicolai'sche Buchhandlung), 1805-1837. 13 volumes (bound in 6). 4to (273 x 230mm). With 1 lithographed portrai...
EUR 9,800
'Epochmaking' work by the founder of modern bryology
HEDWIG, J.
Theoria Generationis et Fructificationis Plantarum Cryptogamicarum Linnaei. Retractata et aucta.
Lipsiae, ex officina Breitkopfio - Haerteliana, 1798. 4to (265 x 220mm). pp. xii, 268, with 1 plainplate of instruments and 42 fine handcoloured en...
EUR 3,500
A very scarce work with excellent plates
HERBST, J.F.W.
Natursystem der ungeflügelten Insekten.
Berlin, G.A. Lange, 1797-1800. 4 parts (bound in one). 4to (275 x 215mm). pp. viii, 88; pp. iv, 26;pp. (2), 30; pp. (4), 86, with 23 fine handcolou...
EUR 2,500
the greatest and largest botanical publication of the eighteenth century
HILL, J.
The Vegetable System. Or, the Internal Structure and the Life of Plants; their Parts, and Nourishment Explained; their Classes, Orders, Genera, and Species, ascertained, and described; in a Method altogether New: comprehending an Artificial Index and a Natural System. With figures of all plants designed and engraved by the author. The whole from nature only.
London, the author, 1761-1775. 26 volumes bound in 13. Folio (445 x 290mm), with 1546 engraved plates on 1544 leaves. Contemporary calf, richly gil...
EUR 45,000
One of the very few copies with superb gouache handcolouring of the plates
HILL. J.
Eden: or, a complete body of gardening. Containing plain and familiar directions for raising the several useful products of garden, fruit, roots and herbage; from the practice of the most successful gardeners, and the result of a long experience. Together with the culture of all kinds of flowers... Including the care and culture of the pleasure-garden.
London, T. Osborne, S. Crowder, H. Woodgate, (1756-) 1757. Folio (422 x 255 mm). pp. (2), iv, ii, 714, with handcoloured engraved frontispiece and...
EUR 18,000
one of the principal sources of seventeenth century still life painting
[HOEFNAGEL, J.] SADELER, J.
[Archetypa Studiaque Patris Georgio Hoefnagelii]. Venetiis, aput Iust. Sadeler, circa 1614.
A suite of 38 engravings (145 x 210mm) after Hoefnagel's 'Archetypa'. Old boards.
EUR 12,000
It was produced by Count Hoffmannsegg, contemporary of Redouté, whose work it rivals
HOFFMANNSEGG, J.C. & H.F. LINK.
Flore Portugaise ou description de toutes les plantes qui croissent naturellement en Portugal.
Berlin, Charles Fréderic Amelang for the authors, 1809-1820 (-1840). Folio (485 x 335mm, 2 text vols & 525 x 355mm, atlas). 22 parts bound in 3 vo...
EUR 7,500
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
it contains descriptions and plates of many of the best garden Rhododendron species which can be grown in this country
HOOKER, J.
The Rhododendrons of Sikkim-Himalaya; being an account, botanical and geographical, of the Rhododendrons recently discovered in the mountains of Eastern Himalaya, from drawings and descriptions made on the spot, during a government botanical mission to that country ... Edited by Sir W.J. Hooker.
London, Reeve, Benham, and Reeve, 1849 (-1851). 3 parts (bound in one). Folio (495 x 370mm). With ahandcoloured vignette, showing the Himalayan mou...
EUR 18,000
it contains descriptions and plates of many of the best garden Rhododendron species which can be grown in this country
HOOKER, J.
The Rhododendrons of Sikkim-Himalaya; being an account, botanical and geographical, of the Rhododendrons recently discovered in the mountains of Eastern Himalaya, from drawings and descriptions made on the spot, during a government botanical mission to that country ... Edited by Sir W.J. Hooker.
London, Reeve, Benham, and Reeve, 1849 (-1851). 3 parts (bound in one). Folio (490 x 380mm). With ahandcoloured vignette, showing the Himalayan mou...
EUR 15,500
The plates are very much in the 'Jacquin' style, elegantly engraved and highly coloured in watercolours and bodycolours
HOST, N.T.
Salix.
Vienna, Typis viduae Antonii Strauss, 1828. Large folio (485 x 340mm). pp. (x), 34, with 105 fine hand-coloured engraved plates. Contemporary marbl...
EUR 21,000
The most attractive book on wood ever published
HOUTTUYN, M.
Houtkunde, behelzende de afbeeldingen van meest alle bekende, in- en uitlandsche houten die tot den huis- en scheepsbouw.... Abbildung in- und Ausländischer Höltzer.../ A representation of Inland and Foreign wood.../ Réprésentation des Bois, des arbes & arbrisseaux tant du Pays qu'Etrangers.../ Icones Lignorum exoticorum et nostratium....
Amsterdam, Jan Christiaan Sepp, 1773-1795. 4to (305 x 245mm). With engraved hand-coloured frontispiece and 106 fine hand-coloured engraved plates, ...
EUR 18,000
HÜBNER, J.
Sammlung exotischer Schmetterlinge (Lepidoptera Exotica). New English fac-simile edition. Edited by P. Wystsman and with additional text by W.F. Kirby.
Brussels, V. Verteneuil & L. Desmet, 1894-1897. 3 volumes. Large-4to (282 x 222mm). pp.(10), (8), (10),172, with 491hand-coloured lithographed plat...
EUR 16,000
INDIAN BIRDS-
A stunning series of original Indian birds painted in gouache on Mica.
Eleven bright and striking 19th century coloured paintings of birds including a Yellow Sparrow, White Sparrow, Crow-headed Bird, Falcon, Red Coler ...
EUR 2,300
JABLONSKY, C.G. & HERBST, J.F.W.
Natursystem aller bekannten in- und ausländischen Insecten, als eine Fortzetsung der von Büffonschen Naturgeschichte. Nach dem System des Ritters Carl von Linné bearbeitet: KÄFER.
Berlin, J. Pauli, 1785-1790. Volumes 1-3 (of 10). 8vo (195 x 120mm). With 1 engraved hand-coloured frontispiece and 3 hand-coloured title-vignettes...
EUR 800
None of the consulted bibliographies on hunting seem to know this work
JACHT EN VELD-TUYCH.
F. de Wit Excudit.
n.p. n.d. A suite of 12 engraved plates, printed on paper measuring 33 x 21cm. Later marbled wrappers.
EUR 2,500
The plates of the present work are probably the finest ever made for a work on coleoptera
JACQUELIN DU VAL, P.N. & FAIRMAIRE, L.
Manuel Entomologique. Genera des Coléoptères d'Europe comprenant leur classification en familles naturelles, la description de tous les genres, des tableaux dichotomiques destinés à faciliter l'étude, le catalogue de toutes les espèces, de nombreux dessins au trait de caractères.
Paris, A. Deyrolle, 1857-1868. 4 volumes. 4to (275 x 175mm). With 303 (292 fine handcoloured) engraved plates. Recent red cloth, spines with gilt l...
EUR 3,300
A very rare work by Joseph Franz, son of and botanical successor to Nikolaus Joseph Jacquin
JACQUIN, J.F (Baron von).
Eclogae Plantarum Rariorum aut minus cognitarum.... Graminum (Fasciculus Primus-Quartus).
Vienna, Anton Strauss for the author, 1813-1820. 4 parts bound in two. Folio (488 x 345mm). pp. 64,with 40 fine handcoloured engraved plates. Conte...
EUR 12,000
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
un des livres les plus precieux pour la Flore d'Orient
JAUBERT, H.F. & SPACH, E.
Illustrationes Plantarum Orientalium.
Paris, Roret, 1842-1857. 5 volumes. Large-4to (350 x 260mm). With 500 engraved plates. Contemporaryhalf calf, spines with 2 black gilt lettered lab...
EUR 7,500
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
The rare 4to issue printed on 'Velin'.
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, 1828-1833 (-1835). 5 volumes. 4to (270 x 210mm). With 544 fine engraved plates by the author, printed in colours with hand-fi...
EUR 6,500
profusely illustrated flora of France
JAUME SAINT-HILAIRE, J.H.
Plantes de la France, décrites et peintes d'après nature.
Paris, chez l'Auteur, 1819-22. 10 volumes. Royal-8vo (257 x 200mm). With 10 lithographed portraits of botanists and 1000 fine stipple engraved plat...
EUR 14,000
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
great classic on Japan and the chief source of western knowledge on this country
KAEMPFER, E.
De Beschryving van Japan, behelsende een verhaal van den ouden en tegenwoordigen staat en regeering van dat ryk, van deszelfs tempels, paleysen, kasteelen en andere gebouwen;van deszelfs metalen, mineralen, boomen, planten, dieren, vogelen en visschen... benevens eene beschryving van het Koningryk Siam.
Amsterdam, Jan Roman de Jonge, 1733. Folio (335 x 210mm). pp. (4), 50, 500, with 48 engraved plates, many double-page including folding maps. Conte...
EUR 9,000
KANGETSU (SHITOMO) Illustrator.
Nihon Sankai Meisan Zue [Illustrations of the Noted Products of Mountain and Sea].
Osaka, Shioya Chobei, 11th year of Kansei, 1799. 5 volumes. 8vo (250 x 175mm). With double-page woodblock illustrations throughout. Contemporary st...
EUR 4,500
The work describes the native trees and shrubs of the Duchy of Wirtemberg
KERNER, J.S.
Beschreibung und Abbildung der Bäume und Gesträuche, welche in dem Herzogthum Wirtemberg wild wachsen.
Stuttgart, C.F. Cotta, 1783-1792. 4to (262 x 206mm). 9 parts bound in one. pp. (10), 1-30; (2), 31-52; (4), 53-67, (1, blank); (2), 69-82; (2), 83-...
EUR 8,500
one of the most beautiful shell books ever made
KIENER, L.C.
Spécies Général et Iconographie des Coquilles Vivantes, comprenant la collection du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris, la collection Lamarck, celle du Prince Masséna et les découvertes récentes des Voyageurs.
Paris, Rousseau/ Baillière, (1834)-1880. 11 volumes (bound in 12). Royal-8vo (240 x 160mm). With 902 fine handcoloured engraved plates. Contempora...
EUR 22,000
one of the most beautiful shell books ever made
KIENER, L.C.
Spécies Général et Iconographie des Coquilles Vivantes, comprenant la collection du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris, la collection Lamarck, celle du Prince Masséna et les découvertes récentes des Voyageurs.
Paris, Rousseau/ Baillière, (1834)-1880. 11 volumes. Royal-8vo (240 x 155mm). With 903 fine hand-coloured engraved plates. Later half blue calf, s...
EUR 16,000
First major publication on the orchids of the Himalaya
KING, G. & PANTLING, R.
The Orchids of Sikkim Himalaya.
Calcutta, printed at the Bengal Secretariat Press, 1898. 4 volumes. Folio (348 x 275mm). pp. (14), iii, iv, 342, 11, with 453 lithographed plates o...
EUR 6,000
It included 456 species, of which 108 were new to science, and 270 genera of plants
KLOTZSCH, F. & A. GARCKE.
Die botanischen Ergebnisse der Reise seiner königl. Hoheit des Prinzen Waldemar von Preussen in den Jahren 1845 und 1846. Durch Dr. Werner Hoffmeister, Leibarzt S.K.H. auf Ceylon, dem Himalaya und an den Grenzen von Tibet gesammelte Pflanzen.
Berlin, Verlag der Königlichen Geheimen Ober-Hofbuchdruckerei (R. Decker), 1862. Folio (338 x 265mm). pp. (8), 164 with 100 lithographed plates. L...
EUR 4,000
Famous work on pomology and fruit trees, the first monographs published with colour plates on this subject
KNOOP, J.H.
Beschrijving en afbeeldingen van de beste soorten van Appelen en Peeren ...
(together with:) Beschryving der vruchtbomen en vruchten die men in de hoven plant en onderhoud ...(together with:) Beschryving der plantagie-gewas...
EUR 2,700
Famous work on pomology and fruit trees, the first monographs published with colour plates on this subject
KNOOP, J.H.
Beschrijving en afbeeldingen van de beste soorten van Appelen en Peeren ...
(together with:) Beschryving der vruchtbomen en vruchten die men in de hoven plant en onderhoud ...(together with:) Beschryving der plantagie-gewas...
EUR 2,700
the most beautiful flora of the Netherlands
KOPS, J.
Flora Batava, afgebeeld door en van wegens J.C. Sepp en zoon; beschreven door Jan Kops.
Amsterdam, Leiden, Haarlem, s'Gravenhage, J.C. Sepp en Zoon, and others, (1800)-1920. Volumes 1-25 (of 28) & 1 index volume. 4to (295 x 240mm). Wit...
EUR 18,500
beautifully produced work on German forest trees and shrubs
KREBS, F.L.
Vollständige Beschreibung und Abbildung der sämmtlichen Holzarten welche im mittlern und nördlichen Deutschland wild wachsen.
Erster Theil (all published). Braunschweig, F. Vieweg und Sohn, 1826. Folio. pp. viii, 460, (2), with fine 150 handcoloured lithographed plates. Co...
EUR 6,000
beautifully produced work on German forest trees and shrubs
KREBS, F.L.
Vollständige Beschreibung und Abbildung der sämmtlichen Holzarten, welche im mittlern und nördlichen Deutschland wild wachsen. Zweite Ausgabe.
Braunschweig, Oehme & Müller, 1846. Folio (364 x 265mm). pp. viii, 460, with 150 fine handcoloured lithographed plates. Contemporary green half m...
EUR 4,900
No complete copies have been offered for sale since decades
KÜTZING, F.T.
Tabulae Phycologicae oder Abbildungen der Tange.
Nordhausen, gedruckt auf Kosten des Verfassers, 1845-1871. 19 volumes. 8vo (215 x 135mm). With 1900(one plate is a drawing) lithographed plates, pr...
EUR 7,500
he persuaded the young Redouté to make fifty-four drawings for his 'magnum opus'
L'HERITIER DE BRUTELLE, C.-L.
Stirpes novae, aut minus cognitae, quas descriptionibus et iconibus illustravit.
Parisiis, P.-D. Pierres, 1784-1785. 6 parts (bound in one volumes). Folio (504 x 340mm). With titles to all 6 parts and 91 (2 double-page) engraved...
EUR 16,000
scarce work portraying the flora of Greenland
LANGE, J
Icones florae Groenlandicae, Tabulae ex opere 'Icones florae Danicae' inscripto selectae.
Copenhagen, Bianco Luno, 1883. 3 atlas volumes and 1 index volume. Folio (392 x 255mm). pp. 11, with 336 beautifully hand-coloured engraved plates....
EUR 12,000
LAPLACE, C.P.T.
Voyage autour du monde par les mers de l'Inde et de Chine exécuté sur la Corvette 'La Favorite' pendant les années 1830-32. (ENTOMOLOGIE).
Paris, A. Bertrand, 1839. 8vo (210 x 145mm). Recent half calf, spine with gilt lettered label.
EUR 2,500
ranks among the principal books on hawking in the English language
LATHAM, S.
Lathams Falconry: or, the Faulcons Lure, and Cure: in two books. The first, concerning the ordering and training up of all Hawkes in generall; especially the Haggard Faulcon Gentle. The second, teaching approved medicines for the cure of all Diseases in them. Gathered by long practice and experience, and published for the delight of noble mindes, and instruction of young Faulconers in things pertaining to this Princely Art.
London, Thomas Harper, for John Harison, 1633. 2 volumes (bound in one). 4to (190 x 138mm). pp. (24), 147, (1, blank); pp. (22), 148, (4), with woo...
EUR 8,800
LATREILLE, P.A.
Histoire Naturelle, générale et particulière, des Crustacés et des Insectes. Ouvrage faisant suite aux oeuvres de Leclerc de Buffon, et partie du Cours complet d'Histoire Naturelle rédigé par C.S. Sonnini...
Paris, F. Dufart, An X-XIII (1802-1805). 14 volumes. 8vo (217 x 135mm). With 112 engraved plates, almost all coloured apart from a few anatomical p...
EUR 3,800
The beautiful plates are all engraved by Nodder and depict a great number of new species
LEACH, W.E.
The Zoological Miscellany, being descriptions of new and interesting animals.
London, R.P. Nodder & Son, 1814-1817. 3 volumes. 8vo (250 x 155mm). pp. 144; 154, (8); (6), 152, with 150 handcoloured engraved plates. Contemporar...
EUR 2,800
"Mikroskopieren" was a fashionable pastime for many of the well-to-do classes
LEDERMÜLLER, M.F.
Mikroskopische Gemüths- und Augen-Ergötzung: bestehend in Ein Hundert nach der Natur gezeichneten und mit Farben erleuchteten Kupfertafeln, sammt deren Erklärung.
Nürnberg, verlegt von Adam Wolfgang Winterschmidt, gedruckt von Christian de Launoy, (1759-62) 1763. 4to (240 x 195mm). pp. (14), 204, (4), with 1...
EUR 3,500
Leech described many species new to science in the present work
LEECH, H.J.
Butterflies from China, Japan, and Corea.
London, R.H. Porter, 1892-1894. 3 volumes. 4to (285 x 220mm). pp. lv, (7), 1-298; (2), 297-681; (4), with 48 (43 chromo-) lithographed plates and 1...
EUR 6,500
Most of the excellent plates are by Prêtre and Bévalet, the best French natural history artists of the period
LESSON, R.P.
Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux-Mouches, ouvrage orné de planches dessinées et gravées par les meilleurs artistes.
Paris, A. Bernard, (1829-30). 8vo (240 x152mm). pp. xlvi, 223, with 86 very fine hand-coloured engraved plates. Loose sheets in contemporary cloth...
EUR 2,800
A beautiful uniformly bound copy of Lesson's 3 works on the hummingbirds
LESSON, R.P.
Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux-Mouches.
Paris, A. Bertrand, (1829-30). 8vo (232 x 142mm). pp. xlvi, 223, with 86 colour-printed engraved plates finished by hand. Contemporary red morocco,...
EUR 8,800
The excellent plates are by Prêtre and Bévalet, the best French natural history artists of the period
LESSON, R.P.
Les Trochilidées ou les Colibris et les Oiseaux-Mouches...
Paris, A. Bertrand, (1832-33). 8vo (232 x 150mm). pp. (4), iv, 171, (1), xliii (1), with 66 very fine colour-printed engraved plates finished by h...
EUR 2,500
one of the finest English bird books
LEWIN, W.
The Birds of Great Britain, systematically arranged, accurately engraved, and painted from nature; with descriptions, including the natural history of each bird. Les Oiseaux de la Grande Brétagne, rangés dans un ordre systématique....
London, J. Johnson, 1800-1796-1801. 8 volumes, bound in 4. 4to (270 x 220mm). With 1 handcoloured engraved frontispiece and 335 handcoloured engrav...
EUR 5,500
one of the rarest iconographies published on Orchids
LINDENIA. ICONOGRAPHIE DES ORCHIDEES.
edited by L. Linden (J. Linden & E. Rodigas a.o.).
Ghent/ Bruxelles 1855-1903. 17 volumes. Folio (350 x 260 mm). With 798 chromolithographed plates and 1 plain plate. Contemporary half cloth, gilt l...
EUR 38,000
damit hatte Berlin den artenreichsten wissenschaftlichen Garten in Europa
LINK, H.F., KLOTZSCH, F. & OTTO, F. (Eds.).
Icones Plantarum Rariorum Horti Regii Botanici Berolinensis.
Abbildungen seltener Pflanzen des Königl. botanischen Gartens zu Berlin. Erster (-Zweiter) Jahrgang(all published!). Berlin, Veit & Co., 1841/Nico...
EUR 3,500
The first comprehensive work on Japanese marine shells
LISCHKE, C.E.
Japanische Meeres-Conchylien. Ein Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Mollusken Japan's, mit besonderer Rücksicht auf die geographische Verbreitung derselben.
Cassel, Theodor Fischer, 1869-1874. 3 volumes. 4to (290 x 225mm). pp. (4), 192; (4), 184; 123, with37 fine handcoloured lithographed plates. Contem...
EUR 4,000
A fine large paper copy of the scarce second edition, edited by Huddesford, of the first great English work on Conchology
LISTER, M.
Historiae sive synopsis methodicae Conchyliorum et tabularum anatomicarum.
Editio altera. Oxonii, typogr. Clarendoniano, 1770. Folio (378 x 240mm). pp. iv, 6, 7, (4), 12, 77,with 439 engraved plates (depicting 1083 figures...
EUR 12,000
A superbly bound large paper copy
LISTER, M.
Historiae sive synopsis methodicae Conchyliorum et tabularum anatomicarum.
Editio altera. Oxonii, typogr. Clarendoniano, 1770. 4 parts & appendix (bound in 1 volume). Folio (365 x 245mm). pp. iv, (4), 12, 77, 6, 7, with 43...
EUR 28,000
the most beautiful Swiss book on fishes
LUNEL, G.
Histoire naturelle des Poissons du Bassin du Léman.
Genève, H. Georg, 1874. Large-folio (495 x 330mm). pp. (4), xii, 209, (3), with 20 chromolithographic plates. Contemporary red half morocco, spine...
EUR 4,600
portraying marine shells from all over the world including shells from Cook's voyage into the Pacific
MARTINI, F.H. & CHEMNITZ, J.H.
Neues systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet.
Nürnberg, G.N. Raspe, 1769-1795. 11 volumes (including the Index volume by Schröter). 4to (395 x 235mm). With 1 hand-coloured engraved frontispie...
EUR 35,000
one of the rarest and most important of all shell iconographies
MARTINI, F.H. & CHEMNITZ, J.H.
Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet. Neu hrsg. u. vervollständigt von H.C. Küster. Nach dessen Tode fortges. von Wilh. Kobelt und H.C. Weinkauff.
Nürnberg, Bauer & Raspe, 1837-1920. 23 volumes. 4to (270 x 215mm). With 1533 engraved or lithographed plates almost all finely hand-coloured (5 pl...
EUR 18,000
This contains a number of plates of beetles, some very splendid
MARTYN, T.
The English Entomologist, exhibiting all the Coleopterous Insects found in England; including upwards of 500 different Species, the Figures which have never before been givento the Public.
The whole accurately drawn & painted after Nature, Arranged and named according to the Linnaean System. London, His Academy for Illustrating and pa...
EUR 2,200
This contains a number of plates of beetles, some very splendid
MARTYN, T.
The English Entomologist, exhibiting all the Coleopterous Insects found in England; including upwards of 500 different Species, the Figures which have never before been givento the Public. The whole accurately drawn & painted after Nature, Arranged and named according to the Linnaean System./ Entomologist Anglois ouvrage où l'on a rassemblé tous les Insectes Coleoptères qui se trouvent en Angleterre et qui forment plus de 500 espèces différentes d'insectes...
London, His Academy for Illustrating and painting Natural History, 1792. Folio (345 x 272mm). pp. (8), 33, with 2 medallion engraved plates and 42 ...
EUR 2,200
One of the rarest pomological works published in the 19th century
MAS, S.A.
Le Verger, ou histoire, culture, et description avec planches coloriées des variétés des fruit le plus généralement connues.
Paris, G. Masson, (1865-1872). 8 volumes. Royal-8vo. With 384 chromolithographed plates, partly finished by hand, containing 702 figures. Contempor...
EUR 8,500
attractively bound copy of this profusely illustrated German edition of Matthioli's famous herbal
MATTIOLI, P.A.
Neu vollkommenes Kräuter-Buch. Von allerhand Gewächsen der Bäumen, Stauden und Kräutern, die in Teutschland, Italien, Franckreich, und in andern Orten der Welt herfür kommen... jetzund aber als ein neues Werck... vermehret von Bernard Verzascha.
Basel, Johann Decker, 1678. Folio (350 x 215 mm). pp. (4), 792, (72), title printed in red and black and numerous woodcuts in the text. Contempor...
EUR 6,500
the most attractive work on fruit published in Germany
MAYER, J.P.
Pomona Franconica oder natürliche Abbildung und Beschreibung der besten und vorzüglichen Europäischen Gattungen der Obstbäume und Früchte welche in dem Hochfürstlichen Hofgarten zu Würzburg gezogen werden. Nebst den haupsächlichsten Anmerkungen über deren Erziehung, Propfung und Pflege... Pomona Franconica. Description des Arbres fruitiers, les plus connus et les plus estimés en Europe...
Nürnberg, bey Adam Wolfgang Winterschmidt, 1776-1776. 2 volumes. 4to (245 x 200mm). pp. civ, 152; (4), 364, with engraved frontispiece, 1 folded e...
EUR 18,000
rightly famous for its large decorative plates showing flowers only
MCDONALD, A.
A Complete Dictionary of Practical Gardening: comprehending all the modern improvements in the art; whether in the raising of the various esculent vegetables, or in the forcing and managing of different sorts of fruits and plants ... from original drawings by Sydenham Edwards.
London, G. Kearsley, 1807. 2 volumes. 4to (265 x 205mm). With 61 beautifully handcoloured engraved plates and 13 engraved plates of instruments etc...
EUR 4,200
The work describes the indigenous fishes of Austria
MEIDINGER, C. VON.
Icones Piscium Austriae Indigenorum quos collegit vivisque coloribus expressos.
Vienna, sumtibus Editoris/ apud Wapplerum Bibliopolam, 1785-1790. Decuria I-IV (of V). With 4 handcoloured engraved vignettes of fishing scenes on ...
EUR 15,000
a fine example how hunting was practiced during the reign of King Frederick II (The Great) of Prussia
MELLIN, A.W. GRAF VON.
Versuch einer Anweisung zur Anlegung, Verbesserung und Nutzung der Wildbahnen, so wohl im Freyen als in Thiergärten.
Berlin & Stettin, Pauli, 1779. 4to (265 x 220mm). pp. xxii, 356, with handcoloured engraved frontispiece and 117 (one anatomical engraving plain) f...
EUR 3,900
the De Luxe issue with 2 engravings, occasionally one, printed on one leaf instead of 4 in the regular edition
MERIAN, MARIA SIBYLLA.
Histoire des Insectes de l'Europe. Dessinée d'après nature... Où l'on traite de la Generation & des différentes Metamorphoses des Chenilles, Vers, Papillons, Mouches & autresInsectes; & des Plantes, des Fleurs & des Fruits dont ils se nourissent, Traduite du Hollandois en Francois par Jean Marret.
Amsterdam, J.F. Bernard, 1730. Folio (515 x 365mm). pp. (4), 84 with 1 fine contemporary hand-coloured engraved frontispiece within a garland of fl...
EUR 50,000
MERIAN, MARIA SYBILLA.
Histoire générale des Insectes de Surinam et de toute l'Europe. Contenant leurs descriptions, leurs figures, leurs differentes metamorphoses. Tome Second: DES PLANTES DE L'EUROPE (second title:) HISTOIRE GÉNÉRALE DES PLANTES ET INSECTES DE L'EUROPE.
Paris, chez L.C. Desnos, 1771. Folio (520 x 340mm). pp. (4), 72, with 184 splendidly hand-coloured plates printed on 47 leaves. Contemporary red ha...
EUR 25,000
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
The colouring is bright and splendid; the fine plates were drawn and engraved by the author himself, who was a miniature-painter, engraver and art-dealer at Nürnberg
MEYER, J.D.
Angenehmer und nuetzlicher Zeit-Vertreib mit Betrachtung curioser Vorstellungen allerhand kriechender, fliegender und schwimmender, auf dem Land und im Wasser sich befindender und naehrender Thiere, sowohl nach ihrer Gestalt und aeusserlichen Beschaffenheit als auch nach der accuratest davon verfertigten Structur ihrer Scelete oder Bein-Coerper/ nebst einer deutlichen so physicalisch und anatomisch besonders aber osteologisch und mechanischen Beschreibung derselben nach der Natur gezeichnet, gemahlet, in Kupfer gestochen und verlegt.
Nuernberg, J.J. Fleischmann, 1748-1756. 3 volumes (bound in 2). Folio (445 x 295mm). pp. (6), 56, (2); 28, (2); (2), 10, with 1 hand-coloured engra...
EUR 22,000
great classic of American botany
MICHAUX, A.
Histoire des Chênes de l'Amérique, ou descriptions et figures de toutes les espèces et variétés de Chênes de l'Amérique Septentrionale, considérées sous les rapports de la Botanique, de leur culture et de leur usage.
Paris, de l'imprimerie de Crapelet, An IX-1801. Folio (415 x 300mm). pp. (4), (56), with 36 engraved plates. Contemporary half green morocco, gilt ...
EUR 9,000
It is the first and only major flora published of Sardinia and adjacent islands
MORIS, G.G.
Flora Sardoa seu Historia Plantarum in Sardinia et adjacentibus insulis vel sponte nascentium vel ad utilitatem latius excultarum.
Taurini, ex Regio Typographeo, 1837-1859. 3 volumes. 4to (270 x 208mm). pp. xii, 606; 562, (2); 564, with 114 engraved plates after drawings by M. ...
EUR 8,200
MUNTING, A.
Waare oeffening der Planten waar in De rechte Aart, Natuire, en verborgene eigenschappen der Boomen, Heesteren, Kruiden, ende Bloemen, Door een veeljaarige onderzoekinge, zelfs gevonden; Als meede op wat maniere zy, in onze Neder- en Hoog-duitsche Landen, gezaait, geplant, bewaart, ende, door het geheele Jaar, geregeert moeten zijn, kenbaar gemaakt worden.
Amsterdam, Jan Rieuwertsz., 1682. 4to. pp. (40), 656, (20), with engraved frontispiece and 40 engraved plates. Contemporary vellum.
EUR 1,800
MÜLLER, SALOMON - (attributed).
Banded Palm Civet Cat (Viverra boiei). Watercolour on paper 25.4 x 39.1 cm - visible image size; 30.0 x 46.0 cm - actual sheet size; 63.0 x 77.3 cm - frame size. In 19th century burr walnut frame.
Titled by hand in ink 'VIVERRA BOIEI 1/2, (lower centre) and dated by hand in ink 'Freytag, Januar 26, 1849' (lower left).
EUR 2,000
The first comprehensive account of the avi-fauna of Germany
NAUMANN, J.F.
Johann Andreas Naumann's... Naturgeschichte der Vögel Deutschlands, nach eigenen Erfahrungen entworfen... herausgegeben von dessen Sohne Johann Friedrich Naumann.
Leipzig, E. Fleischer, 1820-1844 (volumes 1-12); Stuttgart, Hoffmann, (1860), (volume 13). 13 volumes. Royal-8vo (228 x 141mm). With 3 engraved por...
EUR 27,500
beautifully illustrated work on China
NIEUHOF, J.
Het gezandtschap der Neêrlandtsche Oost-Indische Compagnie, aan den grooten Tartarischen Cham, Den tegenwoordigen Keizer van China: waar in de gedenkwaerdigste geschiedenissen... beneffens een naauwkeurige Beschryvinge der Sineesche Steden, Dorpen, Regeering... Gewassen, Dieren...
Amsterdam, W. Waasberge, 1693. Folio (315 x 205mm). pp. (6), 208, 258, (9), with engraved frontispiece, engraved portrait of the author, 1 folding ...
EUR 5,000
The only other copy known is in the British Museum
NOVÆ FLORUM ICONES
Hujus generis atrium cultoribus perutiles, maximâ curâ deliniatæ, et tabulis æneis incisæ. Ex Officina Nicol: Visscher.
A series of 16 copper engravings, numbered lower right, 257 x 175 mm, within the borders c. 229 x 146 mm.
EUR 7,500
a book on bird catching, delightful, chiefly owing to Tempesta's spirited illustrations of the methods employed by fowlers in the beginning of the 17th century
OLINA, G.P.
Uccelliera overo discorso della natura, e proprieta di diversi uccelli, e in particolare di que'che cantano, con il modo di prendergli, conoscergli... E con le Figure... dal Tempesta, e dal Villamena.
Roma, Angelo de Rossi, 1684. 4to (270 x 210mm). Leaves 5, including engraved title, pp. 77, (1), leaves 6 (index), engraved title, enclosed in broa...
EUR 3,500
OORT, PIETER VAN. (After?).
Buceros plicatus Lath. (Wreathed Hornbill), Watercolour on paper c.1827-1837, 25.5 x 33.5 cm - visible image size, 53.0 x 58.5 cm - frame size, framed under glass.
Titled in pencil in old handwriting (lower centre): Buceros plicatus Lath, Java (Goenong Parang).
EUR 2,500
one of the most attractive natural history encyclopaedias of the 19th century
ORBIGNY, C. d'.
Dictionnaire universel d'histoire naturelle... dirigé par M. Charles d'Orbigny, et enrichi d'un magnifique Atlas de planches gravées sur acier.
Paris, au Bureau Principal des Éditeurs..., Langlois et Leclercq, Victor Masson, 1849. 16 volumes (13 text- & 3 atlas-volumes). Royal-8vo (240 x 1...
EUR 3,800
The very fine illustrations depict flowers and fruit growing in the Netherlands
OTTOLANDER, K.J.W., KOSTER, A. & DE VOS, C. (Eds.).
Nederlandsche Flora en Pomona, beschreven en uitgegeven door het Bestuur der Pomologische Vereeniging te Boskoop. Met platen naar de natuur geteekend door A.J. Wendel
Groningen, J.B. Wolters, 1879. 2 volumes. Folio (320 x 250 mm). pp. ix, xii , (4), 235, with 81 chromolithograped plates of fruit and flowers. Publ...
EUR 3,800
early run of this most important paleontological periodical
PALAEONTOGRAPHICA.
Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte der Vorwelt. Herausgegeben von Wilh. Dunker und Herm. von Meyer (& K.A. Zittel).
Cassel, Theodor Fischer/ Stuttgart, Schweizerbart, (1846-) 1851-1894. Volumes 1-40. With 1743, mostly lithographed plates of which some tinted, 2 m...
EUR 9,500
The largest and one of the rarest works on reptiles
PANIZZA, B.
Sopra il sistema linfatico dei Rettili Ricerche Zootomiche.
Pavia, Bizzoni, 1833. Large-folio (650 x 485mm). pp. xliii, with 6 engraved plates. Contemporary brown boards with cloth spine (Small piece of one ...
EUR 5,000
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 100), bound in 17 volumes. Oblong small-8vo (120 x 95mm). With 1 allegoric...
EUR 6,000
No such detailed and exact descriptions and illustrations had been published before
PERRAULT, C.
Description anatomique d'un Cameleon, d'un Castor, d'un Dromadaire, d'un Ours, et d' une Gazelle.
Paris, Frederic Leonard, 1669. 4to (195 x 155mm). pp. 120, with woodcut title vignette and 5 large folded engraved plates. Old black gilt ornamente...
EUR 2,000
The scarce volume on mammals of this important expedition to Mozambique
PETERS, W.C.
Naturwissenschaftliche Reise nach Mossambique auf Befehl seiner Majestät des Königs Friederich Wilhelm IV in den Jahren 1842 bis 1848 ausgeführt.
Zoologie I: SÄUGETHIERE. Berlin, G. Reimer, 1852. Folio (465 x 325mm). pp. xvi, 202, with 46 (36 beautifully handcoloured) lithographed or engrave...
EUR 3,500
The scarce volume on mammals of this important expedition to Mozambique
PETERS, W.C.
Naturwissenschaftliche Reise nach Mossambique auf Befehl seiner Majestät des Königs Friederich Wilhelm IV in den Jahren 1842 bis 1848 ausgeführt.
Zoologie I: SÄUGETHIERE. Berlin, G. Reimer, 1852. Folio (465 x 325mm). pp. xvi, 202, with 46 (36 beautifully handcoloured) lithographed or engrave...
EUR 3,500
von dem immer noch geschätzten und zu einem Rarissimum gewordenen Werk von L. Pfeiffer und F. Otto
PFEIFFER, L. & OTTO, F.120
Abbildung und Beschreibung blühender Cacteen. Figures des Cactées en fleur peintes et lithographiées d'après nature.
Cassel, T. Fischer, (1838-)1843-1850. 2 volumes (bound in 1). Large-4to (330 x 260mm). With 60 partly hand-coloured lithographed plates and explana...
EUR 5,000
First edition of this fine suite of engraved plates on the lion by Bernard Picart
PICART, B.
Recueil de Lions, dessinez d'après nature par divers Maitres & gravez, par Bernard Picart. Divisé en six Livres chacun de six feuilles.
Amsterdam, chez Bernard Picart, le Romain, à l'Etoile, 1729. Oblong 4to (260 x 198mm). pp. (2), 6,with publisher's vignette on title, an addition...
EUR 3,200
The fine plates show marine animals of the Adriatic sea such as shells and crustacean
PLANCUS, J.
De Conchis minus notis liber cui accessit specimen aestus reciproci maris superi ad littus portumque Arimini.
Venetiis, Typis Joannis Baptistae Pasquali, 1739. 4to (260 x 190mm). pp. 88, with woodcut title vignette and 5 engraved folded plates (Together wit...
EUR 3,900
A very unusual long botanical scroll, showing 62 different species, each depiction of a plant
PLANTS OF WESTERN JAPAN.
(Chûshoto okonomi no bunezu). Japanese exceptionally long horizontal painted scroll (11.5 meters by 26 cm.) showing 62 species of plants of Western Japan.
End 18th or beginning 19th century. Colour painted on mulberry paper, with Japanese calligraphy, mounted on a wooden roller, endpaper decorated wit...
EUR 28,000
The account of the expedition and the botanical surveys he published are comparable to the work of Humboldt
POEPPIG, E.
Reise in Chile, Peru und auf dem Amazonenstrome während der Jahre 1827-1832.
Leipzig, F. Fleischer & J.C. Hinrichssche Buchhandlung, 1835-1836. 2 text volumes & atlas. 4to (268x 220mm, text vols) & oblong-folio (480 x 650mm,...
EUR 6,000
A fine copy of noble provenance of the most attractive fruit book ever produced
POITEAU, A.
Pomologie française. Recueil des plus beaux Fruits cultivés en France...
Paris, Langlois et Leclercq, 1846. 4 volumes. Folio (413 x 280mm). With three plain and 420 stipple-engraved plates printed in colours and finished...
EUR 135,000
This is a very fine series of floral engravings in the style of Spaendonck, Redouté, Bessa, etc
PREVOST, B.L.
Principes et leçons de fleurs.
Paris, Demarteau l'ainé (after 1850). Small-folio (330 x 245mm). With 16 etchings printed in bistre, by Giles Demarteau after crayon drawings by P...
EUR 2,000
the first major Spanish flora written by a Spanish author
QUER Y MARTINEZ, J.
Flora Española, ó historia de las Plantas, que se crian en España...
Madrid, Joachin Ibarra, 1762-1784. 6 volumes. 4to (260 x 200 mm). pp. (44), 402; (16), 303; (12), 436; (4), 471, (1); (4), xxxii, 538; (4), 667, wi...
EUR 9,500
both Napoleon III and Queen Victoria subscribed to its first edition
RAVENSCROFT, E. J.
The Pinetum Britannicum. A descriptive account of Hardy Coniferous Trees, cultivated in Great Britain.
Edinburgh and London, W. Blackwood & Son, (1863)-1884. 3 volumes. Folio (555 x 417mm). pp. (6), errata leaf, 1-110; (2), 111-216; (2), 217-330 with...
EUR 15,000
the rare first 8vo-edition of the most famous book on roses
REDOUTE, P.J. & THORRY, C.A.
Les Roses peintes par P.J. Redouté ... décrites par C.A. Thorry.
Paris, C.L.F. Panckoucke, 1824. 2 volumes. Royal-8vo (235 x 155mm). With 160 colour-printed engraved plates, partly finished by hand. Contemporary ...
EUR 15,000
(REDOUTÉ, P.J.).
A large and very attractive early 19th century non signed watercolour of a Papaver somniferum,
or Opium poppy in the style of Pierre Joseph Redouté.
EUR 1,500
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