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BONNATERRE, P.J.
Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature: ERPÉTOLOGIE.
Paris, Panckoucke, 1789. 4to (280 x 215mm). pp. xxviii, 70, (2), with 26 engraved plates. 19th century half cloth, marbled sides.
EUR 1,100
A well preserved set, of this great classic on natural history, dealing almost exclusively with zoology
BUFFON, (G.L.L.) & LACEPEDE, (B.G.E.).
Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière, avec la description du Cabinet du Roy .
Paris, l' Imprimerie Royale, Hôtel de Thou, Plassan, 1749-1804. 44 volumes. 4to (245 x 192mm). With1 engraved portrait of Buffon, 4 folded tables,...
EUR 36,000
The very rare German first edition of Catesby's masterpiece with excellent colouring of the plates
CATESBY, M.
Piscium, Serpentum, Insectorum, aliorumque nonnullorum animalium nec non plantarum quarundam imagines quas Marcus Catesby in posteriore parte splendidi illius operis quo Carolinae, Floridae et Bahamensium insularum tradidit historiam naturalem. Eiusque appendice descripsit, additis vero imaginibvs pisium tam nostratium quam aliarum regionum averut vivisque coloribus pictas ediderunt Nicolaus Fridiricus Eisenberger et Georgius Lichtensteger? Die Abbildungen verschiedener Fische, Schlangen, Insecten, einiger andern Thiere und Pflanzen, welche Herr Marcus Catesby im zweyten Theil und im Anhang seines vortreflichen Wercks der natürlichen Historie von Carolina, Florida und den Bahamischen Inseln beschrieben?Hrsg. Von N. Eisenberger und G. Lichtensteger.
Nürnberg, gedruckt bey Joannis Joseph Fleischmann, 1750. Folio (500 x 360mm), with 100 hand-coloured engraved plates. Contemporary calf with elabo...
EUR 110,000
the famous 'Disciples Edition', which eclipses all others for scientific accuracy and beauty of embellishment
CUVIER, G.1
Le Règne Animal distribué d'après son organisation, pour servir de base à l'histoire naturelle des animaux.
Paris, Fortin, Masson et Cie, (1836-1849). 20 volumes (10 text-volumes & 10 atlas-volumes). Royal-8vo (2707 x 190mm). With 994 engraved plates, alm...
EUR 9,500
Of all the herpetological treatises to emerge in France immediately following the French Revolution, the most comprehensive was Daudin's.
DAUDIN, F.M.
Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Reptiles. Ouvrage faisant suite à l'Histoire Naturelle générale et particulière, composée par Leclerc de Buffon et rédigée par C.S. Sonnini ...
Paris, Dufart, An X-XI (1801-1803). 8 volumes. Royal-8vo (208 x 135 mm). pp. 384; 432; 452; 397; 365; 447; 436; 439, with 100 engraved plates and 2...
EUR 1,500
Of all the herpetological treatises to emerge in France immediately following the French Revolution, the most comprehensive was Daudin's.
DAUDIN, F.M.
Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Reptiles. Ouvrage faisant suite à l'Histoire Naturelle générale et particulière, composée par Leclerc de Buffon et rédigée par C.S. Sonnini ...
Paris, Dufart, An X-XI (1801-1803). 8 volumes. Royal-8vo (210 x 135 mm). pp. 384; 432; 452; 397; 365; 447; 436; 439, with 100 engraved plates, apar...
EUR 3,900
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
The excellent woodcuts show snakes, amphibia, scorpions, fish, a dog suffering from rabies, poisonous plants etc.
GREVIN, J.
De venenis libri due. Gallice primum ab eo scripti, et à multis hactenus Latini desiderati, & nunc tandem opera & labore Hieremiae Martij Augustanae Reipublicae medici, in Latinum sermonem, summa fide & dilligentia, in rei medicae studiosorum utitlitatem atque commodum conversi. Quibus adiunctus est praetereà eiusdem auctoris de antimonio tractatus, eodem interprete, unà cum rerum memorabilium, praecipuè ad operis calcem, Indice.
Antweriae, ex officina Chistophori Plantini, 1571. 4to (223 x 155mm). pp. (20), 332, (10), with 92 woodcuts in the text. Contemporary limp vellum (...
EUR 3,800
GRONOVIUS, L.T.
Zoophylacii Gronoviani Fasciculus Primus exhibens Animalia Quadrupeda, Amphibia atque Pisces, quae in Museo suo adservat... [Together with:] Zoophylacii Gronoviani FasciculusSecundus exhibens enumerationem Insectorum quae in Museo suo adservat....
Lugduni Batavorum, sumptibus auctoris, 1763-1764. 2 parts bound in one. Folio (418 x 264mm). pp. (4), 1-136, (4), with 14 engraved plates of fishes...
EUR 2,500
HUMBOLDT, A. VON & BONPLAND, A.
Beobachtungen aus der Zoologie und vergleichenden Anatomie, gesammelt auf einer Reise nach den Tropen-Ländern des neuen Kontinents, in den Jahren 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803und 1804. Bearbeitet und herausgegeben von dem Erstern.
Tübingen, bey F.C. Cotta/ Paris, bey Levrault, Schoell und Compagnie, 1806. 4to (342 x 250mm). pp. x, 212. Contemporary blue boards (a bit worn).
EUR 1,000
the first comprehensive world summary of amphibians and reptiles and contains still-useful historical information
LACEPEDE, (B.G.E.).
Histoire Naturelle des Quadrupèdes Ovipares et des Serpens.
Paris, Hôtel de Thou, 1788-1789. 2 volumes. 4to (255 x 190mm). pp. 17, (1), 651, with 2 large folded tables and 41 engraved plates; pp. 8, 19, (1)...
EUR 2,100
LACEPEDE, (B.G.E.).
Histoire Naturelle des Quadrupèdes Ovipares et des Serpens. Tome Premier: Histoire Naturelle des Quadrupèdes Ovipares.
Paris, Hôtel de Thou, 1788. 4to (255 x 190mm). pp. 17, (1), 651, with 1 (of 2) large folded tables,1 engraved vignette and 41 engraved plates. Con...
EUR 750
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
The vertebrate section of the famous Austrian expedition around the world
NOVARA-
Reise der Österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 (B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair). ZOOLOGISCHER THEIL, Erster Band (Wirbelthiere).
Wien, Kaiserlich-Königlichen Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1869. 4to (285 x 230mm). [Contains:] Zelebor, J. Säugethiere. pp. 42, with 3 (2 coloured) ...
EUR 1,500
a model faunal work for its day, comprehensive, authoritative, and well illustrated
PETERS, W. C.H.
Naturwissenschaftliche Reise nach Mossambique... in den Jahren 1842 bis 1848 ausgeführt.
Berlin, Georg Reimer, 1852-1882. 6 parts bound in 10 volumes. 4to (330 x 240mm) & folio (470 x 330mm). With 210 (54 fine handcoloured) lithographed...
EUR 8,500
the first book dedicated to botany to include North American plants and according to Sabin of 'extreme rarity'
ROBIN, J.
Histoire des plantes, nouvellement trouvées en l'isle Virgine et autres lieux, lesquelles ont esté prises et cultivées au jardin de Monsieur Robin Arboriste du Roy.
Paris, Guillaume Macé, 1620. 16mo (110 x 70mm.). 16 pp, title within woodcut printed border with plants and animals, with 14 woodcuts of flowering...
EUR 12,000
A SPLENDID COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE GREATEST NATURAL HISTORY BOOKS OF ALL TIME.
SEBA, A.
Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descriptio, et iconibus artificiosissimis expressio, per universam physices historiam.
Amsterdam, J. Wetsten, Gul. Smith, and Jansson-Waesberg (volumes 1 and 2); Jansson-Waesberg (volume3); H. C. Arkesteum and H. Merkum, Peter Schoute...
EUR 115,000
SHAW, G.
General Zoology or Systematic Natural History. Volume III: AMPHIBIA.
London, G. Kearsley/ Thomas Davison, 1802. 2 volumes. Royal-8vo (230 x 160mm). With 2 engraved titles and 140 engraved plates. Contemporary calf, s...
EUR 1,200
WINKLER, T.C.
Des Tortues Fossiles conservées dans le Musée Teyler et dans quelques autres musées.
Haarlem, Loosjes, 1869. Royal-8vo. pp. 151, with 33 tinted folding plates. Contemporary red half morocco, gilt spine.
EUR 450