BENNETT, J.W.
A selection of rare and curious Fishes found upon the coast of Ceylon. From drawings made in that island and coloured from life.
London, printed for the Author, 1851. 4to (296 x 240mm). pp. viii, with 30 splendidly hand-colouredengraved plates all heightened with gum arabic e...
EUR 5,800.00

BLUME, C.L.
Collection des Orchidées les plus remarquables de l'Archipel Indien et du Japon.
Ouvrage dédié à sa Majesté Guillaume I Roi de Wurtemberg. Amsterdam, C.G. Sulpke, 1858. Folio (454 x 290mm). pp. (6), vi, 190, with hand-coloured l...
EUR 10,000.00

BURMAN, J.
Thesaurus Zeylanicus exhibens Plantas in Insula Zeylana nascentes; Inter quas plurimae novae species, & genera inveniuntur. Omnia Iconibus illustrata, ac descripta.
Amstelaedami, apud Janssonio-Waesbergios, & Salomonem Schouten, 1737. 4to (265 x 213 mm). pp. (16),235, (1), (14), (4), 33, (1), with an engraved ...
EUR 4,500.00

DISTANT, W.L.
A monograph of oriental Cicadidae. Published by order of the trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta.
London, King & Co/ Calcutta, Indian Museum, 1889-1892. 7 parts. Large-4to. pp. 157, (1), ix, (5), with 15 partly handcoloured lithographed plates. ...
EUR 1,300.00

DISTANT, W.L.
A monograph of oriental Cicadidae. Published by order of the trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta.
London, King & Co/ Calcutta, Indian Museum, 1889-1892. 7 parts. Large-4to. pp. 157, (1), ix, (5), with 15 partly handcoloured lithographed plates. ...
EUR 1,300.00

DISTANT, W.L.
A monograph of oriental Cicadidae. Published by order of the trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta.
London, King & Co/ Calcutta, Indian Museum 1889-1892. 7 parts. Large-4to. pp. 157, (1), ix, (5), with 15 partly handcoloured lithographed plates. O...
EUR 1,300.00

DISTANT, W.L.
A monograph of oriental Cicadidae. Published by order of the trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta.
London, King & Co., 1889-1892. 7 parts. Large-4to. pp. 157, (1), ix, (5), with 15 partly handcoloured lithographed plates. Original printed wrappers.
EUR 1,300.00

DONOVAN, E.
Natural History of the Insects of India, containing upwards of two hundred and twenty figures and descriptions.
A new edition by J.O. Westwood. London, Henry G. Bohn, 1842. 4to (300 x 240mm). pp. vi, 102, with 58 fine handcoloured engraved plates. Contemporar...
EUR 6,000.00

DONOVAN, E.
Natural History of the Insects of India, containing upwards of two hundred and twenty figures and descriptions.
A new edition by J.O. Westwood. London, Henry G. Bohn, 1842. 4to (300 x 240mm). pp. vi, 102, with 58 fine handcoloured engraved plates. Contemporar...
EUR 7,000.00

GÜNTHER, A.C.L.G.
The Reptiles of British India.
London, published for the Ray Society by R. Hardwicke, 1864. 2 volumes (text & atlas). Folio (364 x255mm). pp. xxvii, (1), 452, with 26 lithographe...
EUR 1,450.00

HANLEY, S. & THEOBALD, W.
Conchologia Indica: Illustrations of the land and freshwater shells of British India.
London, L. Reeve & Co., 1876. 4to (210 x 275mm.). pp. xviii, 65, with 160 handcoloured lithographedplates. Contemporary black calf, gilt.
EUR 5,500.00

HEWITSON, W.C. & MOORE, F.
Descriptions of New Indian Lepidopterous Insects from the collection of the late Mr.
W.S. Atkinson. Rhopalocera by Hewitson (&) Heterocera by Moore. With an introduction by A. Grote. Calcutta, Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1879-1888. 3...
EUR 600.00

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 19,000.00

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 18,000.00

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 15,500.00

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 2,300.00

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 6,000.00

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. La...
EUR 4,000.00

LOUREIRO, J. DE.
Flora Cochinchinensis: sistens plantas in regno Cochinchina nascentes. Quirus accedunt aliae observatae in Sinensi imperio, Africa orientali, Indiaeque variis. Omnes dispositae secundum systema sexuale Linnaeanum. Labore, ac studio Joannis de Loureiro.
Ulyssipone, typis et expensis Academicis, 1790. 2 volumes. 4to (257 x 195mm). pp. (2), xx, 353; (4), 357-744, (2). Contemporary calf, gilt ornament...
EUR 1,500.00

MONARDES, N. (et al.).
Histoire des Drogues espisceries, et de certains medicamens simples, qui naissent és Indes & en l'Amerique. Cette matiere comprise en six Livres: dont il y a cinq tirés du Latin de
Charles de l'Escluse: & l'Histoire du Baulme adioustee de nouveau: où il est prové, que nous avons le vray Baulme d'Arabie, contre l'opinion des an...
EUR 6,900.00

ORTA, GARCIA DA & MONARDES, N.
Dell'historia de i semplici aromati, et altre cose che vengono portate dall'Indie Orientali pertinenti all'uso della medicina di Don Garzia Dall'Horto... et due altri libri parimente di quelle cose che si portano dall'Indie Occidentali di Nicolo Monardes... tradotti... da Annibale Briganti...
Venezia, G. Salis, 1616. 8vo (160 x 110mm). pp. (32), 525, (1), with printer's device on title and numerous woodcuts in the text. Contemporary limp...
EUR 1,800.00

ROYLE, J.F.
Illustrations of the Botany and other branches of the Natural History of the Himalayan mountains and the Flora of Cashmere.
London, W.H. Allen & Co., (1833-) 1839 (-1840). 2 volumes (text & atlas). Folio (370 x 270mm). pp. lxxx, 472; pp. (iv), with 1 aquatint frontispiec...
EUR 8,000.00

ZANONI, G.
Rariorum Stirpium Historia ex parte olim edita. Nunc centum plus tabulis, ex commentariis auctoris ab ejusdem nepotibus ampliata opus universum digessit, latine reddidit, supplevitque Cajetanus Montius.
Bononiae, Ex Typographia Lealii a Vulpe, 1742. Folio (390 x 260mm). pp. (40), 247, with an engravedallegorical frontispiece and engraved portrait o...
EUR 3,900.00